Hellions, Vol. 1 by Zeb Wells7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheldon (better known by her pseudonym of James Tiptree, Jr.). Some few writers of science fiction are bona fide men or women of science, such as the biochemist Isaac Asimov, the astronomers Fred Hoyle and Carl Sagan, the physicists Gregory Benford and David Brin, or the experimental psychologist Alice B. Wells, and their craft is science fiction, the fiction of science. ![]() The scientists go one way, the humanists another, and those who would travel with both (like Snow himself, a novel-writing scientist) court the condemnation of both.īut one courageous band of writers straddles the two cultures ineluctably, no matter what the training or allegiance of its members. Snow observed in The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), modern civilization is split in two. In mainstream fiction, such a creature is almost unknown. One of the rarest birds in the lands of literature is the scientist who writes novels. ![]()
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