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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Psychohistory as sociology and statistics, and a scientist warning an empire that will not listen.
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Psychohistory as sociology and statistics, and a scientist warning an empire that will not listen.
Buy packet · $5Arachnid physiology, terraforming, and uplift, worked out across deep time.
Buy packet · $7Botany, thermodynamics, and chemistry, all of it reasoned out loud on the page.
Buy packet · $5Geoengineering and carbon economics, argued rather than narrated.
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Gets the science mostly right and the ethics catastrophically wrong, which is the whole lesson.
Zero-gravity kinetics and game theory, taught to a child who is never told what he is actually doing.
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