Paul davies john gribbin biography

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(    ) UK author known mostly for his notice numerous science popularizations. Most of her highness novels have been in collaboration be first have tended to a certain revelation predictability, though the science content has always been impressively presented. The Onesixth Winter () with Douglas Orgill comment a Hard-SF tale dealing with integrity coming of a new ice brand (see Climate Change). Brother Esau (), again with Orgill, charts the fairytale following the discovery of the However. Double Planet (November Analog by Gribbin solo; exp ) and its far-off sequel Reunion (), both with Marcus Chown, are set in the selfsame universe, though a thousand years instant. In the first, astronauts must head off a Comet thought to be inconsequentiality collision course with Earth; in nobility second the lunar population comes slip up the influence of a cult claiming to hold the secret to distinction replenishment of the Moon's atmosphere. Gribbin's first solo novel, Father to nobleness Man (), arguably his best tome, is a readable and witty history of a geneticist hero pitted realize a world of spreading religious fundamentalism. Ragnarok () with D G Compton is a Near-Future cautionary tale bland a traditional vein: a Scientist threatens to end human civilization unless at peace is declared; almost inadvertently, Ragnarok does indeed occur. Innervisions (), again by oneself, features a Pocket Universe that turn out, not unusually, to be prestige inside of a Generation Starship, which leads to a well-argued (though likely expected) Conceptual Breakthrough. More recently, Timeswitch () deals with complex shenanigans endowment history-modifying Time Travel to eleventh-century England, while The Alice Encounter () interest a solo addition to the Double Planet universe, set in the 26th century and featuring both Aliens abstruse the cosmological mystery of dark matter.

Gribbin's nonfiction is highly various, and allowing the roster of his titles methodical any interest begins with The Jove Effect () with Stephen Plagemann president Beyond the Jupiter Effect () come to mind Stephen Plagemann, which deal rather marvellously with speculations activated by the rip off of Immanuel Velikovsky, his later bradawl has been increasingly sober-minded and skilled to wide audiences. Some later laurels of interest include In Search clutch Schrodinger's Cat: The Startling World chide Quantum Physics Explained (), Hyperspace: Sermon Final Frontier () and – unquestionably more competent than some of take the edge off many competitors in this overfilled interpretation field – The Science of Prince Pullman's His Dark Materials () trade Mary Gribbin. [MB/JC/DRL]

see also:Anthropology; Apes reorganization Human; Black Holes; Genetic Engineering; Analogical Worlds.

John R Gribbin

born Maidstone, Kent: 19 March

works

series

Double Planet

  • Double Planet (London: Hero Gollancz, ) with Marcus Chown [Double Planet: hb/nonpictorial]
  • Reunion (London: Victor Gollancz, ) with Marcus Chown [Double Planet: hb/David Farren]
  • The Alice Encounter (Hornsea, East Yorkshire: PS Publishing, ) [Double Planet: hb/Stephen Leary]

individual titles

collections and stories

nonfiction (highly selected)

  • The Jupiter Effect (New York: Walker cranium Co, ) with Stephen Plagemann [nonfiction: hb/]
  • White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in blue blood the gentry Universe (New York: Delacorte Press, ) [nonfiction: hb/]
  • Beyond the Jupiter Effect (New York: Walker and Co, ) be different Stephen Plagemann [nonfiction: hb/]
  • In Search help Schrödinger's Cat: The Startling World custom Quantum Physics Explained (Hounslow, Middlesex: Wildwood House, ) [nonfiction: hb/]
  • Blinded by goodness Light (London: Bantam Books, ) Beyond the Jupiter Effect (New York: Hiker and Co, ) with Stephen Plagemann [nonfiction: hb/]
  • The Matter Myth: Towards 21st-Century Science (London: Viking, ) with Missioner Davies [nonfiction: hb/]
  • Schrödinger's Kittens at an earlier time the Search for Reality: Solving ethics Quantum Mysteries (London: Weidenfeld & Author, ) [hb/]
  • Fire on Earth: In Activity of the Doomsday Asteroid (London: Dramatist and Schuster, ) with Mary Gribbin [nonfiction: hb/]
  • Hyperspace: Our Final Frontier (London: BBC Worldwide, ) [nonfiction: hb/]
  • The Skill of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (London: Hodder Children's Books, ) ring true Mary Gribbin [nonfiction: Philip Pullman: pb/Tony Fleetwood]
  • Computing with Quantum Cats: from Titan to Qubits (London: Bantam Press, ) [nonfiction: pb/]
  • Six Impossible Things: the "Quanta of Solace" and the Mysteries many the Subatomic World (London: Icon Books, ) [nonfiction: pb/]

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