in the book “the gods themselves” they presented such a situation and gave the dire answer: no one would listen to you if it meant giving up the good thing.
I legit came here to comment about The Gods Themselves. Stellar novel. Everyone should read it.
Great points about the commercial pressures on science, cults of personality and perceived intelligence of successful people, too. Rumor has it Asimov wrote the book out of spite for another sci-fi writer who willy-nilly used an impossible isotope in his novel and did not care when corrected.
Not a spoiler: there are trisexual interdimensional trans people.
Edit: Zodiak by Neal Stephenson has a similar theme.
in the book “the gods themselves” they presented such a situation and gave the dire answer: no one would listen to you if it meant giving up the good thing.
I legit came here to comment about The Gods Themselves. Stellar novel. Everyone should read it.
Great points about the commercial pressures on science, cults of personality and perceived intelligence of successful people, too. Rumor has it Asimov wrote the book out of spite for another sci-fi writer who willy-nilly used an impossible isotope in his novel and did not care when corrected.
Not a spoiler: there are trisexual interdimensional trans people.
Edit: Zodiak by Neal Stephenson has a similar theme.