![]() ![]() Intuition is a character study, a detective story, and a philosophical meditation all wrapped up into one supremely enjoyable, devastatingly smart package. This is a fantastic, exceptionally well-written and compulsively readable novel. It was mainly curiosity, therefore, that caused me to pick up Goodman's novel, but within a few pages I was hopelessly hooked. ![]() ![]() As one of the characters in Allegra Goodman's novel Intuition says: "Can I tell you about the research that goes on here? People are saving lives every day in theory, in the future." Off the top of my head, I can only think of one novel, Gregory Benford's Timescape, which tries to depict the reality of the scientific process-painstaking, meticulous, and above all slow. The popular SFnal depiction of scientists falls somewhere between Rodney McKay and Gaius Baltar-glorified engineers coming up with off-the-cuff solutions to immediate problems. In any genre, depictions of science and scientific research are rare, and in SF in particular one more often comes across science in its processed form, technology. Then again, I suspect that neither does anybody else. This is a funny thing for a science fiction fan to say, but I don't read a lot of novels about scientists. ![]()
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