Sound Off in the Forum    Book cover art by Chris McGrath
(left). Review © 2005 by Thomas M. Wagner.  Nitpick first. The
methodologies of science — involving as they do rigorous
application of evidence and peer-reviewed experimentation —
could not be more diametrically opposed to religion, with its
emphasis on faith and revelation. So when you hear someone,
usually a religious fundamentalist, refer to science as just
another religion, you can be confident you're talking to an
idiot. And if you ever meet a scientist who practices his
science as if it were some dogmatic religion: again, idiot.  So
when Jim Butcher has Harry Dresden, wizardly investigator, call
science "the great religion of the 20th century" on page three
of Storm Front, I came within a picosecond of flinging the book
in the bin and relegating Butcher to my "Don't Waste Your Time"
list. But then I thought, Now now, lighten up. After all, this
is a fantasy series set in an alternate Earth in which
paranormal things occur with regularity, and the