Books on Goodreads
In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
reviews: 7
ratings: 29 (avg rating 3.72)
The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told!
reviews: 5
ratings: 32 (avg rating 3.22)
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Category Archives: Writing & Reading
Tsundoku III
As it’s National Book week all this week, and yesterday was World Book Day, this lunchtime saw me indulging my tsundoku habit at the Break charity shop in Cromer (well, that’s my excuse.) This is what I bought: Peoples and … Continue reading
Authoration
Not having written any books lately about teenage vampires, schoolboy wizards, sadomasochism, cookery or gardening, the times I’ve been asked for advice about how to get a book published can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. (The times … Continue reading
The Accidental Audiobook
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I knew that the Shameless Plug was soon to come out as an audiobook. Well, it’s here, and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, here. Narrated by the very splendid Martin Dew, it’s completely unabridged, and, … Continue reading
Squishy
When a colleague of Mrs Crox learned that Crox Minor (15) wanted to go to medical school and study to be a surgeon, the colleague recommended that Crox Minor read Brain Matters: Adventures of a Brain Surgeon. So she did, … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Is Vital, Writing & Reading
Tagged books, brain matters, careers, glioblastoma, healthcare, katrina s firlik, neurosurgery, reading and writing, sexism
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Writing Spaces
At the beginning of his memoir Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it. I know, I know, I swore I wouldn’t, either. But the temptation … Continue reading
Gut Feelings
Decisions, decisions. The job as a manuscript editor at Your Favourite Weekly Etcetera largely consists of making decisions – whether to consider a manuscript for publication, or to send it on its way elsewhere. Because we receive a very large … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Writing & Reading
Tagged books, Gigerenzer, Gut Feelings, recognition heuristic, science communication, science publishing
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Science of Middle-Earth: New Paperback Edition
The printing history of The Lord of the Rings is reputedly one of the more complex and tangled issues in modern publishing history. Matters aren’t quite so fraught for The Science of Middle-earth, my own contribution to the canon. For … Continue reading
Creation, by Adam Rutherford
There’s a story, probably apocryphal, of how Winston Churchill gave a speech to the Free French, ill-advisedly in the tongue of Molière and Balzac. Quand je regarde mon derrière, boomed Britain’s great wartime leader, Je vois qu’il est divisé en deux parts. None … Continue reading
Posted in Writing & Reading
Tagged adam rutherford, creation, evolution, origin of life, synthetic biology
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Reads Of The Year
Great minds, it is said, think alike. For example, just as I was planning this post, I learned that Professor S. C. of London had posted his reads of 2013. The distinguished crystallographer, though, described all 26 of the books he’s … Continue reading
The Future Is Here
Many years ago when the world was young (OK, it was 2007), Tor put out an anthology of 100 very short stories from the ongoing Futures SF series, devised by me back in the last millennium. The anthology was received … Continue reading
