The Ragged Edge of Science

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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)