Science and technology books
You have to work to keep up. And you have to keep up, else somebody will throw "dark matter" or "theistic evolution" or "black smokers" at you down at the tavern and there you'll be, facing a charge of affray, that wonderful chapter title in the Georgia penal code that covers people who just casually get into bar fights. I mean, it could be your close friend who tries to tell you the 2017 asteroid will only hurt the people it actually lands on.
There are some terribly good books coming out every day on science and technology. People in these fields care deeply that the general public is falling behind—well, has pretty much always lagged behind them—and they make an honest effort to deliver their newest knowledge to, face it, the taxpayers and voters who have already paid for it. But the public by and large isn't having any, and that makes a dangerous situation. The health-care people spend 150 years seeking, devising, testing and improving ways to keep you from dying before your day, and your government turns around and funds some jackleg panel that wants to put aromatherapy and therapeutic handwaving at the focus of biomedical research. Once again, I plead, don't get me started.
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- The Cosmic Landscape (April 2006)
- Timepieces
- The Next Fifty Years of Flight
- The God Delusion and Letter to a Christian Nation (December 2006)
- The Science of Discworld
- Tower of Babel
- Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections
- Krakatoa
- Beyond Pluto
- Ubiquity and Nexus
- The Blank Slate
- Experiments in Gothic Structure
- The Ancestor's Tale
- In Search of Infinity (June 2006)
- Spook (December, Year 6)
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