Radiance
by Carter Scholz · first published 2002
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by Carter Scholz · first published 2002
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I spent a bit of time over the last 3 months typing up & annotating an obscure but excellent SF/literary novel, _Radiance_ by Carter Scholz ( http://www.gwern.net/docs/2002-radiance ). It's all about the Lawrence Livermore SDI scandals and then the process of them getting NIF, so I read up on the historical background. I…
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