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Science, Technology and Innovation Program: Olav Sorenson and Lee Fleming viewpoint (946 words) |
 | The idea that the development of science has driven the rapid economic growth of the Western world enjoys wide acceptance today. |
| This highly favorable view of the scientific method conflicts, however, with a substantial literature on the practice of science that points to the highly political and often subjective nature of the debates surrounding scientific advances. |
| For example, if much of the benefit of science accrues from its norms of openness, then public funding of research should include stipulations of quick and public disclosure of results to take advantage of the potential societal benefits. |
| David Ketterer- The SF Element in the Work of Poe: A Chronological Survey (6434 words) |
| It is the "happier star" mentioned in "Sonnet--To Science," which functions as a proem to "Al Aaraaf"; here the world of myth, displaced on earth by science, has taken refuge. |
| In this fourth doppelganger grotesque (see #33), the result of the narrator's mutilating his fl cat (a projection of those aspects of his personality he wishes to exorcise) is a series of catastrophes culminating in the death of his wife-i.e., his potential for arabesque awareness. |
| Claims that Poe was "the first writer of science centered fiction to base his stories firmly on a rational kind of explanation, avoiding the supernatural" (p4l7); counts seven of the tales as SF: ## 13, 58, 59, 62, 74, 81, 83. |
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