Ok… and just to head off the replies… I know there’s always likely to be one in such a large field, and he also got tons of stuff wrong (centre of the earth et al) but still… as an example of one author that consistently got a lot of stuff right (mainly through thoroughly understanding science and extrapolating from there) - he’s brilliant.
Ok… and just to head off the replies… I know there’s always likely to be one in such a large field, and he also got tons of stuff wrong (centre of the earth et al) but still… as an example of one author that consistently got a lot of stuff right (mainly through thoroughly understanding science and extrapolating from there) - he’s brilliant.
Arthur C. Clarke?