Re: chemistry sci-fi

On May 21, 9:17 pm, EvilGo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi all, I'm looking for decent, technically detailed, chemistry
specific
science fiction novels to read, any good recommendations would
be really appreciated.

Even the great Asimov couldn't make chemistry interesting to a fiction
audience. The closest he got was an attempted murder by putting
glycerine on the threads of an oxygen cylinder. This was a method of
offing someone that even very few chemists had heard of.

Sadly, at the party of scholarly people, we are the wallflowers. Even
accountants find chemists boring. It would be fun to read a real
chemistry based novel, but I suspect even a novel writer would drift
off to sleep in chapter one.

Dangerous Bill


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