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Re:Yahoo fails again. Yahoo science news writer outs herself... by AndrewDucker on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:32AM (#6069289)
"The Origin of Species has an enchantingly arid English tone to it; this somber tone was part of a deliberate effort to mark it as science and not science fiction the Star Trek of its time."

I am baffled by this. Does the writer think that Star Trek isn't science fiction?

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Re:Yahoo fails again. Yahoo science news writer outs herself... by daveid on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:38AM (#6069302)
No, she implies that the tone of the Origin of Species masks it as science when it is, according to her, actually comparable to Star Trek.
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