Book Shambles LIVE Special #1
with Dean Burnett, Helen Czerski, Helen Keen & Ginny SmithIt’s our first ever live episode of Book Shambles! Recorded at QEDCon in Manchester Robin Ince is joined by a panel of top science writers including Dr Dean Burnett, Dr Helen Czerski, Helen Keen and Ginny Smith. They chat about everyone’s own science writing plus the work of Douglas Adams, Oliver Sacks, George RR Martin and lots more. Including sex magic with L. Ron Hubbard…
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Notes: Here is the rotating snake illusion and the Titchener illusion that Ginny mentioned.
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Reading List
Dean Burnett recommends:
The Idiot Brain by Dean Burnett
The Star Trek novels of Diane Carey
Becoming Johnny Vegas by Johnny Vegas
Ginny Smith recommends:
How Food Works by Ginny Smith, Sarah Brewer and Joel Levy
How the Body Works by Ginny Smith and others
How Science Works by Ginny Smith and others
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
Helen Czerski recommends:
Storm in a Teacup by Helen Czerski
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
The Earth by Richard Forte
Helen Keen recommends:
The Science of Game of Thrones by Helen Keen
The Game of Thrones series by George RR Martin
The work of Simon R Green
The work of Octavia Butler
Robin recommends:
The Infinite Monkey Cage: How To Build a Universe by Robin Ince and Brian Cox
Room by Evan Donoghue
The work of Douglas Adams
Sex and Rockets: The Occult of Jack Parsons by John Carter
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Making Up the Mind by Chris Frith
The work of Philip K Dick
Nightfall by Isaac Asimov
The writings of Alfred Russel Wallace
Murmers of Doubt by Rebecca Fox
The work of Alan Moore
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Helen squared, lovely! 🙂
I love Helen Keen’s “It Is Rocket Science”.