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Philip Pullman

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English writer known for his fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and other works such as The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Named one of the "50 greatest British writers si... Show More

English writer known for his fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and other works such as The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Named one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945" by The Times and knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature.

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I enjoyed this book very much, not least because of the freshness of its approach to a subject that can easily become hard for the non-scientific mind to grasp. The theory of ‘can and can’t’ is an intriguing way of describing problems that are not only scientific (it describes very well what a storyteller does, for instance), and Marletto’s account of some things I thought I more or less understood (the nature of digital information, for one) illuminated them from an angle that showed them more clearly than I’d seen them before.

Book May 4, 2021
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals
by Chiara Marletto
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