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  I’m a writer. Doomsday Men, my cultural history of science, superweapons and other strangeloves, is published by Penguin in the UK and by St Martin’s Press in the US. It will soon be published by Companhia das Letras in Brazil. More

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• Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon

  

  Homo sapiens is the only species that knows it will die. The thought obsesses us. From the earliest marks made on cave walls to our most sublime works of art, the fear of death haunts our every creation. And in the middle of the twentieth century, human beings became the first species to reach that pinnacle of evolution – the point at which it could engineer its own extinction.

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• My Books

  • Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon
  • Einstein
  • Metaphor and Materiality: German Literature and the World-view of Science 1780-1955
  • Writers in Sussex

• Articles & Reviews

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  • The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against Aids, by H Epstein; Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, by A Gordon
  • Films of Fact, by Timothy Boon
  • Off the Page, ed by Carole Burns; China: Empire of Living Symbols, by C Lindqvist

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  • William Gibson
  • A Practical Policy
  • Gary Murning
  • Books Are My Only Friends
  • The future - a rough guide
  • Indeterminacy
  • BibliOdyssey
  • Adventures in Uncinema
  • My Back Pages: Sean Carman
  • The Elegant Variation
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