The Ragged Edge of Science

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image_caption = Dust-jacket for "The Ragged Edge of Science"
author = L. Sprague de Camp
illustrator = Don Simpson
cover_artist = Don Simpson
country = United States
language = English
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subject = pseudo-science
publisher = Owlswick Press
release_date = 1980
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = x, 244 pp.
isbn = ISBN 0913896063
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"The Ragged Edge of Science" is a 1980 science book by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Don Simpson and published by Owlswick Press.

The book is a collection of twenty-two articles (two of them book reviews) on various curiosities and wonders exploring the boundaries between science and pseudo-science. The constituent articles were originally published in a variety of magazines and newspapers from 1950-1976.

Contents

*"The Falls of Troy"
*"The Mayan Elephants"
*"The Pyramids of Kush"
*"The Street of the Dead: Teotihuacan"
*"The Tower of Mystery"
*"Tula and the Vanished Toltecs"
*"The Quarter-Acre Round Table"
*"Faery Lands Forlorn"
*"Bridey Murphy and the Martian Princess"
*"The Mysterious Kabbalah"
*"The Great Charlatans"
*"The Great Satanist Plot"
*"A Modern Merlin"
*"The Mountains of Light"
*"The Mystic Trance"
*"So You Want to Be a Prophet?"
*"The Decline and Fall of Adam"
*"Worlds in Collision" (book review)
*"The Great Pseudomath"
*"How to Talk Futurian"
*"The So-called Fourth Dimension"
*"Chariots of the Gods?" (book review)

References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=865 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=84 | date=1983

External links

* [http://illadvised.blogspot.com/2007/03/book-l-sprague-de-camp-ragged-edge-of.html BOOK: L. Sprague de Camp, "The Ragged Edge of Science"] - an exhaustive review on the [http://illadvised.blogspot.com/ ILL-ADVISED] blog