merripestin

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/27027393-sound-bites-for-the-spooky-month

So...

A science journalist in California whom I supplied with a quote before surfaced again. As a Halloween month entry, he was ginning up an article of assorted science and science fiction folks describing their "most unsettling reads", I presumed of nonfiction, though actually he left that open. My quote is at the end of the article...

https://nautil.us/the-most-unsettling...

Much of my science reading is of biology, paleontology, astronomy, geology, and other deep-time subjects that put distressing current human events into perspective as, as one of my characters once put it, "a faint smear on the surface of a speck". Which I find the opposite of unsettling, more calming. But with a little thought, I was able to come up with an older candidate book.

(This Robert Serling should not be confused with Rod Serling the creator of The Twilight Zone TV show, another staple of my childhood -- speaking of unsettling things. Two different dudes.)

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on October, 21

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