Synopses & Reviews
Galileo may have been forced to deny that the Earth moves around the Sun; but in the end, science triumphed. Nowadays science fearlessly pursues truth, shining the pure light of reason on the mysteries of the universe. Or does it? As best-selling author James P. Hogan demonstrates in this fact-filled and thoroughly documented study, science has its own roster of hidebound pronouncements which are Not to be Questioned. And those who question them may face a modern-day Inquisition. Among the dogma-laden subjects he examines are Darwinism, global warming, the big bang, problems with relativity, radon and radiation, holes in the ozone layer, the cause of AIDS, and the controversy over Velikovsky. Hogan explains the basics of each controversy with his clear, informative style, in a book that will be fascinating for anyone with an interest in the frontiers of modern science.
About the Author
James P. Hogan is a master of science fact and fiction in the grand tradition, writing non-fiction articles and books which clearly explain abstruse scientific matters, and also writing novels which combine informed and accurate speculation from the cutting edge of science and technology with suspenseful story-telling and living, breathing characters. His first novel was greeted by Isaac Asimov with the rave, "Pure science fiction . . . Arthur Clarke, move over!" and his subsequent work quickly consolidated his reputation as a major SF author. He has written nearly twenty novels including Paths to Otherwhere and Bug Park (both Baen), the Giants series (coming soon from Baen), the New York Times bestsellers The Proteus Operation and Endgame Enigma and the Prometheus Award Winner The Multiplex Man (all available from Baen). Hogan, born in London, studied engineering at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnsborough, subsequently specializing in electronics and digital systems. In 1977 he moved to the US to become a senior consultant, concentrating on the applications of minicomputers in science and research for DEC. In 1979, he became a full time writer, and science and techology's loss is the reader's gain.