Rationality, Science Fiction, and Humanity's Future
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You're listening to the Michael Shermer Show. All right, let's talk about science fiction. Uh, 1001 of the greatest science. By the way, I love the cover design. Whoever did that for Prometheus books really kind of captured that 1950s feel when science fiction, I guess, really came of age.
I suppose. Have you always been interested in science fiction since you were a kid? Yeah, yeah. Um, goes all the way back to the the murky days of my childhood. I
The first, I guess, science fiction memory I have is standing, you know, about probably four years old, maybe, four years old. I have I if yeah, I'd have to be four or five maybe, standing sort of wobbly legged in the backseat of my parents' car at the drive-in theater. Planet of the apes, the original. And, you know, mom and dad in the front seat, and I'm just watching that mind blown. And then uh
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