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"This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations."
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"Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds."
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