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The problem is that Science Fiction (perhaps more than Fantasy) are novels about ideas and their impact, while most people are more interested in reading about people and their relationships; adding to this is the problem that most SciFi authors are (and this must be said) bad writers...

I don't think Borges rediscovered Cantor independently, or even had the technical background to study the theory (he was definitely not a mathematician), but there were many popular expositions at the time, by Russell, for example, and he almost certainly read some of those. But I don't think...

Kinds of infinity and the Book of Sand The "Book of Sand" is one of the most accomplished Borge's stories about one of his favorite themes: how we, finite beings, can ever hope to grasp an actual infinity. The infinite quality of this book goes further than the intuitive notion that most...