phantom power
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Fri Dec-31-04 10:38 AM
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| The Dougal Dixon appreciation thread |
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I love this guy's "future biology" books. I just ran across "The Future is Wild" in the bookstore. Is there anything cooler than a land-dwelling squid, or a ground-nesting octopus?
I also noticed that Vernor Vinge cribbed his idea for social spiders in "Across Realtime".
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| semillama
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Tue Jan-04-05 10:49 AM
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| 1. I really enjoyed his stuff |
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although I thought the Future Is Wild stuff was a watered down version of his first book. After Man was fascinating, as was the New Dinosaurs.
Fantastic works of imagination, and pretty believable. Probably anathema to any anti-evolutionists, though.
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| phantom power
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Tue Jan-04-05 01:53 PM
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| 2. anathema for sure, especially "After Man" |
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not only are we descended from apes, we're the ancestors of herd beasts :-)
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