You know I would actually recommend SF novel that is most science fictiony book ever, meaning that it has all the elements of SF that reader expects: time travel, space ships, future, past, nuclear war, post apocalypse, alternative history, human de-evolution, Dyson sphere, real historical scientists, aliens and it's written in a very approachable style that reads very easily.
That novel is "Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter and although it is a sequel to HG Wells classic it can stand very well on it's own.
That novel is "Time Ships" by Stephen Baxter and although it is a sequel to HG Wells classic it can stand very well on it's own.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"