Ansible!
It's up!
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, knows where his towel is. As he told the British Interplanetary Society this year, 'It is better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science; it's no more likely to be wrong and is far more stimulating than the second-rate science. And I think it's good to read the great classics of science fiction.' [M]
Go forth, and read.
1 comment:
I once got to hang out with Ilya Prigogine, a Nobel laureate in physics, and he said something similar to me: that he imagined writing good science fiction required skills analogous to those useful in science.
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