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Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it.

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"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times"

- Greg Egan

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This quote is written / told by Greg Egan somewhere between August 20, 1961 and today. He/she was a famous Scientist from Australia. The author also have 13 other quotes.

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