On 19/06/25 05:05, quadibloc wrote:
The Big Three of science-fiction are usually Clarke, Asimov, and
Heinlein.
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The Big Three of science-fiction WERE usually Clarke, Asimov, and
Heinlein. I preferred Vonnegut, Dick and Asimov.
Before that, Enid Blyton, Richmal Crompton and someone else were my Big
Three.
Ah, well. C. P. Snow may have explained why it's hard to find authors
with the right overlapping skill sets - the "Two Cultures" of the arts
and the sciences.
C P Snow died in 1980. His "Two Cultures" was dated 1959. He never read
Banks, nor Reynolds, nor Vinge, nor David Mitchell, nor Herbert, nor
Leckie, nor dozens of others that have developed skills in both Cultures
in the sixty five years since. I argue for Pantheism.
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