The Best American Science Writing 2002 edited by Matt Ridley, HarperCollins, $27.50, ISBN 006621162X Reviewed by John Bonner
GOOD science writing has more in common with books about telepathy and the pyramids than with student textbooks. It is about the occult, claims the editor of this anthology.
What Matt Ridley is saying is that the best of the genre should be about the mysteries of science at its outer limits, rather than a catalogue of known facts. It should be taking the reader to the brink of an “abyss of ignorance”, then saying that one day we will understand…
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