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Friday, 6 January 2012

The Excitement Of The Found Image

Posted on 07:55 by Unknown
Why even hard science fiction shouldn't be considered to be in any way a facsimile of the scientific method:
In just three sentences, M. John Harrison nails what science fiction is really all about.
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