Let prospective purchasers be warned: if you buy a copy of "Science Fictions," you will be paying the whole price, but you will not be getting the whole book.
My only intersection with Christian Science as an adult was receiving from a friend a copy of "Science and Health" given to her by J. D. Salinger, who had written notes in the margins concerning the pages he thought applied to her circumstances.
So when I saw an ad for a technician at Sandoz in Austria while flicking through a copy of Science, my adventure started.
A supermarket has apologised after copies of a science magazine were displayed in the men's interest section of its news stand.
You spot copies of classic science fiction texts strewn on the beds – Fahrenheit 451, The Drowned World – and recognise clips from Peter Watkins's The War Game in the big-screen montage of apocalyptic films.
The New Yorker, March 23 , 1963P. 32 Incidental Intelligence: During the newspaper strike, the library of the New York University School of Medicine has been filling its racks with copies of the "Christian Science Monitor".
"Who would have imagined," he continued, "that, even at 6d, there was a thirsty public anxious to buy thousands of copies of books on science, sociology, economics, archaeology, astronomy and other equally serious subjects?" His instinct was not only commercially astute but democratic.
What may seem like sacrilege now — turning the only handwritten copy of a seminal work of science into scratch paper — appears to have been normal then.
But the long-term effects are worse: copy-checking imperils the sort of science journalism that everyone claims they want to see.
Is merely checking copy a threat to "the sort of science journalism that everyone claims they want to see"?
Then the director Peter Jackson, who had been given a copy of "Love in the Time of Science," invited her to sing "Gollum's Song" — a gothic bit of pap that Torrini's strong, glassy upper register almost saves — on the soundtrack of "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers".
