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The author also wrote historical fiction set in antiquity with plenty of engineering: The Arrows of Hercules and The Bronze God of Rhodes (and others with fewer
by abecedarius 12y ago
The author also wrote historical fiction set in antiquity with plenty of engineering: The Arrows of Hercules and The Bronze God of Rhodes (and others with fewer machines or that I haven't read).
I liked this book too. There's another section though where he confidently attributes 19th- and 20th-century progress to a strong patent system. (I don't expect newer books are more accurate on the whole; but it's harder to see their biases.)
- walterbell 12y agoThanks for those pointers, it looks like he wrote five "nongenre" novels, http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18 http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18 . I was looking at his time-travel collection, Years in the Making. Separately, Charles Singer edited a 1950's History of Technology encyclopedia which is well respected: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/07/28/the-history-of-the-history-of-technology/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/07/28/the-history-of-th... and http://www.amazon.com/review/RG20DEV8YLX39/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=019858105X http://www.amazon.com/review/RG20DEV8YLX39/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per...
- abecedarius 12y agoThanks, that encyclopedia sounds interesting.