![]() ![]() And that’s still in the lab, because outside the lab lies even more drudgery endless paperwork to apply for research grants, constant academic or corporate social infighting, political pressures… The appalling state of today’s science is matched only by our disgusting lack of knowledge about it.Īll of this must have crossed Gregory Benford’s mind as he sat down to write Cosm, his latest science-fiction novel. Answers are found after messy, meticulous trial-and-error procedures that don’t result in flashes of insight as much as in slow theoretical elaboration. Real-world science truly doesn’t work that way. One cannot count the number of cheap stories in which The Answers seem to be held by one clever fellow who can also whip up a universe-saving device in five minutes and still get the girl. ![]() ![]() Avon EOS, 1998, 374 pages, C$8.99 mmpb, ISBN 2-1Įven though “Science” is fully half of science-fiction, its representation in most SF stories is simply appalling. ![]()
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