fringe science

Today’s topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: “Science fiction is inherently a literature of science, and bards of science is among the more printable things that SF authors have been called. Working scientists such as Dr Robert Forward, Isaac Asimov and Catherine Asaro have written famous SF tales, but alongside the solid work of such people, there is the strange legacy of people such as Norman Dean, Richard Shaver and Erich von Daniken, makers and tale-tellers of so-called fringe science. “When a friend brought up the infamous Ica Stones recently, I was thinking about the enormous amount of fringe science … Read more