Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings (ISBN 0-8050-5867-2) is a book containing writings from four decades by the English author John Fowles. It was published in 1998.
Most of the contents are short, non-fiction pieces that had been written for various purposes since 1963, including forewords to other authors' books, and pieces written for science journals or other periodicals.
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