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Two new plaudits for The Genesis Quest

16/4/2021

 
I have two pieces of good news about my book The Genesis Quest.

We learned in late March that it has been longlisted for the 2021 Hughes Prize. This is a biennial award given by the British Society for the History of Science, for "the best book in the history of science (broadly construed) published in English which is accessible to a wide audience of non-specialists". Previous winners include Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature, one of my favourite books of the last decade, so even to be longlisted is wonderful news. The shortlist will be announced in June 2021.

We also learned that materials scientist and broadcaster Mark Miodownik loved the book, and he has kindly gone on record saying: "This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important scientific question of our age." Mark is a terrific science communicator so his good opinion of the book means a lot to me.

This is all very encouraging, as we're gearing up for a paperback edition later this year!

Everything I've written about the covid-19 pandemic

14/4/2021

 
I've written a lot of articles about the covid-19 pandemic, for a range of publications. To keep track of them all, I've started a long thread on Twitter.

I'll be doing a thread of my favourite articles this year, but first:

Everything I've written about #COVID19 #coronavirus

THREAD:

1/14 pic.twitter.com/cXVCwhW8oX

— Michael Marshall (@m_c_marshall) December 18, 2020

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