Thank you for defending scientists (says one of your resident scientists who reads Jane Austen).
There were plenty of rah-rah-science children's science fiction books published in the 50s or thereabouts. See Danny Dunn, or all Heinlein juvies (except Podkayne, sorry), or a fun but insubstantial book called "The Mad Scientist's Club" I picked up at Worldcon. Indeed, not many of the ones I've read have good biologists, but that may be a selection effect of what I choose to read (says the physics major).
Then again, there's plenty of fiction (and history) that deals with the moral qualms of physicists. e.g. "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."
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Date: 2009-10-14 01:37 am (UTC)Thank you for defending scientists (says one of your resident scientists who reads Jane Austen).
There were plenty of rah-rah-science children's science fiction books published in the 50s or thereabouts. See Danny Dunn, or all Heinlein juvies (except Podkayne, sorry), or a fun but insubstantial book called "The Mad Scientist's Club" I picked up at Worldcon. Indeed, not many of the ones I've read have good biologists, but that may be a selection effect of what I choose to read (says the physics major).
Then again, there's plenty of fiction (and history) that deals with the moral qualms of physicists. e.g. "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."