Category Archives: Writing & Reading

What I Read In October

Posted on 1 November 2026 by Henry Gee

Paul Murdin: Exoplanets: The Search for Earth’s Twin The discovery and initial characterisation of solar systems beyond our own has been one of the great scientific successes of the past thirty years. More than 6,400 so-called ‘exoplanets‘ are now known, … Continue reading →

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Event Horizon

Posted on 1 November 2026 by Henry Gee

Graham Farmelo: Hawking, His Life and Work This is the authorised biography of a truly remarkable person of whose existence I am sure you are both aware, so famed has he become in scientific and popular culture. No other theoretical … Continue reading →

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What I Read In June and July

Posted on 31 July 2026 by Henry Gee

I apologise once again for the reduced frequency of my book blog. Frankly, I blame myself. However, I am enjoying a brief respite from my current project (working title: The Only Way Is Ethics) so I can catch up. John … Continue reading →

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The White Heat of Creation

Posted on 28 July 2026 by Henry Gee

I wrote somewhere that there is no surer sign of an unwillingness to write than an untended blog. I should perhaps qualify that statement, because blogs might remain untended for all sorts of reasons, chief of these being, in my … Continue reading →

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What I Read In May

Posted on 31 May 2026 by Henry Gee

Featuring the struggle to reach the top of coming up to, notwithstanding inasmuch as which I just about manage to summarise the books I have read listened to consumed before the relevant month is out. The first two and the … Continue reading →

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What I Read In December

Posted on 1 January 2026 by Henry Gee

Blake Crouch Dark Matter Jason Desson used to be the most promising physicist of his generation, but lack of funds meant that he couldn’t make progress on his efforts to quantumly entangle more atoms than existed in a tiny dot, … Continue reading →

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What I Read In November

Posted on 1 December 2025 by Henry Gee

Mick Herron: Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, Joe Country, Slough House, Bad Actors, Clown Town Following on from Slow Horses and Dead Lions (both reviewed last month) these novels — which should be read (or listened to) in that … Continue reading →

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Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?

Posted on 2 November 2025 by Henry Gee

What follows is a review of Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares: If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies – it was going to be part of my monthly book blog but the review got so long I felt it should have … Continue reading →

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What I Read In September

Posted on 28 September 2025 by Henry Gee

William Boyd Stars and Bars A rare mis-step by a usually reliable author who ventures into slapstick comedy of the uptight-Englishman-in-America variety. If it’s satire about America you’re after, Dickens did it first (and better) in Martin Chuzzlewit, which — … Continue reading →

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What I Read In February

Posted on 2 March 2025 by Henry Gee

Max Telford: The Tree Of Life Many years ago when the world was young I tried to explain, in popular science form, how scientists organise the natural world, all the better to understand the pattern of creation. The result was … Continue reading →

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