A selection of previously published book reviews
Super Crunchers
Ian Ayres
Fortean Times,
November 2007
New Theories of Everything
John D Barrow
Fortean Times,
October 2007
The Artist and the
Mathematician
Amir D
Aczel
Fortean Times,
August 2007
A People's History of Science
Clifford D Conner
Fortean Times,
October 2006
The Infinite Cosmos
Joseph Silk
Fortean Times,
June 2006
Are we alone? The Stanley Kubrick
Extraterrestrial-Intelligence Interviews
Anothony Frewin (ed)
Fortean Times,
April 2006
Freakonomics
Steven D Leavitt
& Stephen J Dubner
Fortean Times,
October 2005
Two biographies of Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle: A
life in science by Simon Mitton & Fred Hoyle's Universe
by Jane Gregory
Fortean Times,
September 2005
Empire of the Stars
Arthur I Miller
Fortean Times,
Summer 2005 (issue 200)
Breaking the Time Barrier
Jenny Randles
Fortean Times,
June 2005
HG Wells: Traversing Time
W Warren Wagar
Fortean Times,
March 2005
Bolt of Fate: Benjamin Franklin and his
electric kite hoax
Tom Tucker
Fortean Times,
September 2004
So you think you're human?
Felipe
Fernandez-Armesto
Fortean Times,
August 2004
Critical mass: How one thing leads to another
Philip Ball
Fortean Times,
July 2004
Fred Hoyle's universe
Chandra
Wickramasinghe, Geoffrey Burbridge & Jayant Narlickar (editors)
Fortean Times,
June 2004
The art of deception: Controlling the
human element of security
Kevin D Mitnick
& William L Simon
Fortean Times,
June 2004
Backroom
boys: The secret return of the British boffin
Francis Spufford
Fortean Times,
April 2004
The
phaselock code
Roger Hart
Fortean Times,
February 2004
The
prophet and the astronomer: A scientific journey to the end of time
Marcelo Gleiser
Fortean Times,
January 2004
Quantum: A guide for the perplexed
Jim Al-Khalili
Fortean Times,
July 2003
Gonzo Science (CD)
Jim Richardson
Fortean Times,
May 2003
XTL: Extraterrestrial life and how to find it
Simon Goodwin with
John Gribbin
Fortean Times,
February 2003
Our molecular future
Douglas Mulhall
Fortean Times,
December 2002
I wish I'd made you angry earlier
Max Perutz
Fortean Times,
September 2002
Time travel in Einstein's universe
J Richard Gott III
Fortean Times,
January 2002
A thin cosmic rain
Michael W
Friedlander
Chemistry &
Industry, 15 October 2001
The talk of the galaxy - an ET message
for us?
Paul LaViolette
Fortean Times,
April 2001
Rare Earth
Peter D Ward &
Donald Brownlee
Fortean Times,
March 2001
The bit and the pendulum
Tom Siegfried
Chemistry &
Industry, 18 December 2000
The universe that discovered itself
John D Barrow
Fortean Times,
November 2000
Life on other worlds and how to find it
Stuart Clark
Chemistry &
Industry, 18 September 2000
Here be dragons
David Koerner &
Simon LeVay
Fortean Times,
August 2000
Heavy water and the wartime race for nuclear
energy
Per F Dahl
Chemistry &
Industry, 21 February 2000
The moon: resources, future development and
colonization
David Schrunk,
Burton Sharpe, Bonnie Cooper & Madhu Thangavelu
Chemistry &
Industry, 20 December 1999
Planetary dreams: the quest to discover
life beyond earth
Robert Shapiro
Chemistry &
Industry, 19 July 1999
The chemistry of mind-altering drugs
Daniel M Perrine
Chemistry &
Industry, 5 January 1998