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• The Physics of Superheroes

  Kakalios, James, 1958-

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  As a scientist as well as a superhero, Barry Allen is constantly experimenting with his powers and testing what he can do. This book, which addresses how super powers would work with our real world science, would be a great source for him.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Physics of the Impossible

  a Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

  Kaku, Michio

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  Noted physicist Kaku explains how far-out things like time travel, parallel universes, antimatter and anti-universes, and teleportation might work. Just the kind of physics the Flash regularly deals with.

• A Wrinkle in Time

  L'Engle, Madeleine

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  A timeless (sorry, not sorry) classic about traveling through time and space to fight evil. Even if someone like Barry Allen has already read this, it deserves a reread.

• Sherlock Holmes

  the Complete Novels and Stories. Volume I

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930

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  The classic standard for scientific detectives, how could a forensic scientist like Barry Allen not read the original Holmes adventures?

• Sherlock Holmes

  the Complete Novels and Stories Volume II

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930

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• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

  Yu, Charles, 1976-

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  This fun, imaginative, quirky novel involves time travel and parallel worlds, just like the Flash's stories. And considering how often Barry has interfered with his own past to try to make things better, this story of maintaining a stable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Time Machine

  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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  The classic SF story about time travel, this is something you'd expect Barry to have read, but if he had, he would have realized much sooner that someone named H. Wells wasn't exactly from the present.

• Act of Violence

  Mystery Street

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  The first detective movie to prominently feature forensic science, it's essential viewing for police scientists, even if it's just to chuckle at how science has progressed since the 1950s.

• Tomorrowland

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  Post-apocalypse and dystopian stories are very popular right now, but we also need stories like this, full of optimism and hope and the promise of science.

• The Multiversity

  the Deluxe Edition

  Morrison, Grant,

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  Barry Allen's first appearance in Showcase #4, 1956, showed him reading a comic book featuring the original 1940s Flash. This inspired him to take the name Flash when he got his super powers. He soon discovered the other Flash wasn't…Read moreRead more of this annotation