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A parallel universe, also known as a parallel dimension, alternate universe or alternate reality, . Used in science fiction, the concept of "hyperspace" often refers to a parallel universe that can .. It manages also to have a fictional multiverse angle in that references are made to Heinlein's early SF/fantasy short story "They".
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Publishers then tried to pressure him into changing the ending again , leading Keyes to return at least one advance and receive several other rejections before the book finally saw print. Blood Music , by Greg Bear Often stories expanded into novels reflect evolving concepts. It has an air of morality pulled right out of a horror story, leaning on the unintended consequences of scientific arrogance. The novel version followed in , nearly five decades later, and was written in collaboration with Robert Silverberg.
The novel is less well-regarded. The story won the Hugo and Nebula that year; a decade later Willis triumphantly returned to the concept with a novel in which a different historian travels back to plague times. Proving just how strong the underlying bones of the story were, Willis won matching Hugo and Nebula awards for the novel as well. Three additional sections reveal what happens next, making this more of a continuation than an expansion. So too was the novel, in fact—two sequels followed, Beggars and Choosers and Beggars Ride. The Rowan , by Anne McCaffrey Whereas many expanded short stories either disappear entirely into their novel versions or serve as the first portion of a larger story, Anne McCaffrey took the story of the Rowan, a lonely Talent known capable of slinging spaceships through space via telekinesis—collected in Get Off the Unicorn in —and formed the larger narrative around it like a pearl.
Clarke Reportedly there were two ways to annoy Arthur C. Free market economics deliberately simplifies human behavior, focusing only on a few things which they argue are the main factors driving our economic interactions. Ironically, the Austrian School of Economics, while it still believes in the laws of free market economics, has rejected this precision, and refuses to make mathematical predictions.
Instead, they claim that the results predicted by their theory always take place, even if the actual results—warped by things not covered by their theories—are radically different from their predictions, or even their exact opposite. In fact, some—like Hans-Hermann Hoppe, borrowing a page from Immanuel Kant—go so far as to argue that their conclusions can not be disproven by any awkward failure of reality to match their predictions.
They are a logical conclusion of a logical system, and thus are true, whether they actually describe what happens or not. Hoppe goes so far as to argue that the same is true of socialism, and that both systems are immune from any empirical attempts to disprove them. Which is about as far from the mathematical certainties of psychohistory as it is possible to get.
By the early part of the 20th century, for example, an important Marxist theorist like Antonio Gramsci could reject the notion that history led inevitably to the proletarian state.
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It seems at best an unlikely combination, one that Marx would never have approved. All three men routinely faced accusations of poor scholarship, dubious conclusions, and even twisting the facts to fit neatly into their preconceived categories.
Nor has time been kind to their reputations. All three have been largely forgotten, their work rarely cited by other historians, and the entire idea of comparative history ignored except by a few modern scholars like Harold Adams Innis and Samuel Huntington. In the real world, psychohistory is an attempt to apply psychology to history, to gain a greater understanding of what caused past events.
It tends to focus on issues related to childhood—and most notably, questions of incest and other forms of sexual abuse. Some psychohistorians hope that by perfecting our methods of rearing children, we might eliminate war and international hatreds. This is about as close to Asimov as it gets. Psychohistory has never quite emerged from its academic shantytown and remains controversial. There are no departments of psychohistory, even if a few colleges do have courses in it.
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Many of their fellow historians have questioned their vast grab-bag of assorted methods and think that their reconstructions of past historical figures involve a lot of guesswork. Others question whether it should be considered a separate discipline at all, as mainstream historians have long attempted to explore psychological motivations. For it does not always look at mass psychology, and cultural analysis, but it also attempts to understand the psychological motivations of historic individuals.
While the image of history as an ever upward, evolutionary process may have been the orthodox belief at the time of Spengler, it had itself replaced an even older view. Rather than seeing history in terms of sweeping trends, this older view held that it was the choices made by individuals which have shaped history. It is a view which has never quite died, finding support at the time from a number of mostly Catholic scholars, notably Christopher Dawson, Hilaire Belloc, and Sir Herbert Butterfield.
It is his refinement of the science of psychohistory, his predictions, his establishment of the Seldon institute, and the shadowy Second Institute that reshape history. Even though he may have made his choices based on mathematical models, they are still his choices. Without them, the history of the galaxy would have looked quite different.
Whether or not Isaac Asimov believed that psychohistory was possible, the story of Hari Seldon is not of one of randomness and blind forces, determinism, and the laws of science, but of a single remarkable man whose actions reshape the history of the galaxy.
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Click here to hide the comments. After this article went to press, I came across another interesting strand that parallels Dr. Asimov's concept, in the field of sociology. Rudolf Carnap and many of the other sociologists associated with the Vienna Circle believed that man's behavior could be quantified and explained statistically, much as the fictional Hari Seldon did.
This approach to sociology is still with us although it has not had the overwhelming success its founders dreamed of. Nor for that matter, has it proven capable of predicting future events with any precision. Perfect Gentleman on Wheels. Ann Veronica.
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