From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...
Book & Author. It has remained for a young woman ... (She explains, “The world of the poet … is the scientist’s world. Their claim on systems is the same claim. Their writings anticipate ...
On Being a Scientist was designed to supplement the informal lessons in ethics provided by research supervisors and mentors. The book describes the ethical foundations of scientific practices and some ...
Job seekers hoping to land a position in President-elect Barack Obama's administration would be wise to pick up a copy of the US government's Plum Book, which lists ...
The well-publicized commercial successes of science books for the lay, or trade, market--going all the way back to The Double Helix by James Watson (New York, Atheneum Publishers, 1968), and through ...
The book launched him on a career that made him ... But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he ...
The Simons Foundation and publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux announce the launch of Quanta Books, a partnership imprint led by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Quanta ...
"In a fraction of a day all vestiges of civilization are gone, and the great cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, New York — are nothing but legends. Barely a stone is left where ...
From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there is plenty of great science fiction published this month ...