The Ragged Edge of Science

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The Ragged Edge of Science
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
Subject(s)	pseudo-science
Publisher	Owlswick Press
Publication date	1980
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	x, 244 pp.
ISBN	ISBN 0913896063

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.

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"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)

[edit] References

Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 865.
Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 84.