Status Updates From The Cosmic War: Interplanet...

This book is a fascinating look at the power of extrapolation and sharpshootery. Throwing everything and the kitchen sink together, reading the resulting crumbles like tea leaves, tracing little lines all over it, remarking on the “patterns” in the debris…

Am I really reading this trash? Yes. Why? Research. Into what? Two things: first, my own fiction writing. And second, the idea of academic mistrust. Why do people resort to the outlandish when the simplest explanation is in front of them?