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Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions

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I was absorbed by the facts and science in this book- well writtend and not boring. It flows along without staggering on shop-talk. Scary things are said!

This is the first book by James P. Hogan that I've read and I'll certainly read more. It contains a fascinating nonfiction article on plasma physics and the sun ("The Cosmic Power Grid") that builds upon the work of Hans Alfven, challenging the notion that the sun is powered by fusion. For sheer speculative thinking, this one's got to get an A+. The fiction and the nonfiction in the volume is inspired by the same imaginative scope.

James Hogan wrote in 2005, "Once you've got a shop window to the world that people are coming to look at, you find all kinds of thoughts, opinions, and "takes" on various issues that you just have to air. But at least it's better to vent them in a place that anyone interested can choose to visit, than to insist on bogging your books down and turning them into pulpits, with the consequences that we've all seen and groaned at." Five years and some Crackpot Pseudo-scientific ideas later he does exactly that. Buried under the Dingbattery there are some good stories. On a whole its not worth the effort.