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Doing science in the Spirit World: order, chaos and H.G. Wells in a Billion Years till the End of the Earth.

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From: Extrapolation
Date: 20030622
Author:Slusser, George

* The Strugatskys' novel A Billion Years to the End of the World [Za milliard let do kontsa sveta (1976); English translation Definitely Maybe (1976)] is an important work, both in terms of the writers' own development, and as a unique contribution to the growing international literature in this century about scientists practicing science. Early Strugatsky work is generally optimistic about the possibility of scientific advancement in a classless future. This is later tempered by a sense that neither human institutions nor human nature are straight-line affairs; the problem ...

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