Five SF Novels Inspired by Disproven Scientific Theories

[james_davis_nicoll]

Plenty of exciting hypotheses eventually fall out of scientific favor — but not before they've found their way into science fiction!

Five SF Novels Inspired by Disproven Scientific Theories

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[neowolf2]

And do you remember Tom Van Flandern, who was very active on Usenet? A big proponent of "asteroids are fragments of a lost planet" idea. Never mind that meteorite oxygen isotopes rule that out.

[philrm]

That was probably the least wrong of van Flandern's...let's go with idiosyncratic astrophysical theories.