I have a number of things that I consider my "hobbies", though I'm not sure they really count. Either way, they are non-academic things that I like to do. I keep a number of physics toys in my office. I consider them one of my hobbies. A gallery of pictures of the toys in various configurations is found here.

I like to read Science Fiction. Here is a list of books that I enjoy, in no particular order.

• Ender's Game series by Orson Scott Card
• Dune Series by Frank (and Brian) Herbert
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Robot Series and the Foundation Series by Issac Asimov
• The Ringworld Series by Larry Niven
• The Parable Series by Octavia Butler
• Most of the Ekumen books by Ursula LeGuin
• Most of the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
• A Collection of dystopias including 1984 by George Orwell, A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
• The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
• The Rama Series, and the Odyssey Series by Arthur C. Clark
• Doomsday Book, Promised Land, To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
• The Forever books by Joe Haldeman
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (A Wabash Alum)
• more to come...

A list of movies that I think are important in terms of their depiction of science or science fiction ideas.

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
• Back to the Future Series (1985)
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Contact (1997)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Dune (1984)
• Galaxy Quest (1999)
• Gattica (1997)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Innerspace (1987)
• IQ (1994)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Last Starfighter (1984)
• Logan's Run (1976)
• Men in Black (1997)
• Minority Report (2002)
• October Sky (1999)
• Phenomenon (1996)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Real Genius (1985)
• Short Circuit (1986)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi (1977, 1980, 1983)
• Star Trek (2, 4, 6, and 9) (1982, 1986, 1991, 1998)
• Stargate (1994)
• Starman (1984)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Fly (1958)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
• The Time Machine (1960)
• Total Recall (1990)
• TRON (1982)
• Wall-e (2008)
• Weird Science (1985)

Although not science fiction, I am also a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies (2001, 2002, 2003).