As practiced today, geology is not a science but a pursuit of observations for their own sake, not all that different from collecting stamps.
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Isaac Asimov may have been the worst of the famous science fiction writers. His unsophisticated prose would have been dreadful if written by a teenager,…
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Decades ago I used to read much science-fiction. I don’t anymore, unless you consider Ballard and Bradbury science-fiction (I don’t). Every now and then, however, I…
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JG Ballard shares with Jorge Luis Borges the distinction of having been ignored by the Nobel Prize committee. This may say more about the meaning…
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