Like Gary, I’ve never felt comfortable with “best” lists—too linear, too one-dimensional, too competitive. (I don’t have any problems with making comparative judgments, but ranking an arbitrary set of works always struck me as, well, arbitrary.) And, as he said, who do I think I am anyway? Gary’s second question, about audience(s), is exactly on point… The Locus readership is hardly representative of the whole range of consumers of science … Continue reading Russell Letson: Take-out, with pickle & extra napkins