Word: ossian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where it won an impressive 80% of Britain's viewing audience. It was co-authored by TV Scriptwriter John Elliot and Mathematician Fred Hoyle. 46. Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge and a leading proponent of the theory of the expanding universe. Hoyle finds that writing science fiction (Ossian's Ride, The Black Cloud) is a "very useful relaxation" from work on his 15-year opus on astrophysics. Readers may find both interesting and irritating some Hoylean attitudes toward the U.S. role in the West: in debates with the U.S. commanding general in Britain, his British opponents give...