Dr Dean Burnett
Season 2, Episode 1In the Season 2 premiere of Book Shambles, Josie and Robin are joined by neuroscientist and author of the popular Brainflapping blog as well as new book The Idiot Brain, Dr Dean Burnett to talk psychology, science fiction, Spike Milligan and horse punching…
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Reading List
Dean recommends:
The Star Trek novelisations by Diane Carey
First Frontier by Diane Carey and James Kirkland
The work of Stephen Baxter
The work of Isaac Asimov
The work of Robert A. Heinlein
The Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett
Kiln People by David Brin
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons By Sam Kean
Good to be God by Tibor Fischer
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
Robin recommends:
Absolute Pandemonium by Brian Blessed
We Are Our Brains by Dick Swaab
Star Trek episode photo books
The City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison
The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean
Josie recommends:
The work of Kurt Vonnegut
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
Some Comics by Stephen Collins
There’s No Time Like the Present by Paul Rainey
Book of Lists by Paul Rainey
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Josie’s recommendation Paul B Rainey for the Ultranet book is actually called There’s No Time Like the Present. Here’s a link to the Goodreads page for anyone else interested:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26853957-there-s-no-time-like-the-present