From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 12:26:08 MDT
There's a new book on nanotech out, called Nanocosm, by William Illsey
Atkinson. Based on the reviews I've seen, it's a terrible book. See
http://nanotech-now.com/Chris-Phoenix/nanocosm-critique.htm for a
comprehensive debunking of the book and its approach by Chris Phoenix.
Even amazon.com's Publisher's Weekly review of the book disparages it!
"Atkinson veers from pretentiousness to chattiness... sophomoric...
inept... he makes fun of a Swiss scientist's accent and a Japanese
woman's inability to pronounce her r's clearly.... simply not worth
slogging through the rest of this book." I've never read such a negative
review published by a book-selling site.
It definitely sounds like this is a book to avoid.
Hal
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