Scientific Romance by Brian Stableford

Author:Brian Stableford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Courier Publishing
Published: 2017-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

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1 Pliny the Younger observed the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii from the home of his uncle, Pliny the Elder, in Misenum; his letters to Cornelius Tacitus describing his experiences have survived.

2 The reference might be to the English writer Samuel Butler, whose utopian romance Erewhon (1872) includes a section entitled “The Book of the Machines,” which suggests that, in accordance with the Darwinian logic of natural selection, machines are bound to evolve faster and further than humankind, displacing their original makers.

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