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You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. ...more

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique...more

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Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here'...more

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If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool...more

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It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

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No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

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That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one spe...more