Hi Everyone,
Hope it’s all thriving in the Café Scientifique
network – it sounds as if it is!
I’m just emailing now to see if any
of you might like to contribute to the ‘Big Science Read’ which we
at Jodrell Bank are launching next year in collaboration with the Manchester
Literature Festival and the Manchester Science Festival.
We’re collecting nominations now, so
if you have some ideas, please do pitch in!
I’ve set out the details below.
Best wishes,
Teresa
Dr Teresa Anderson
Head of Public Understanding of Science
and Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Physical
Sciences
The
T: 01613063990
M: 07766134008
Big Science Read 2008 – Calling All Nominations!
In October 2008, Manchester Literature Festival,
Manchester Science Festival, Time to Read and Jodrell Bank (The University of
Manchester) will be co-hosting the Big
Science Read Festival, an exciting opportunity to explore,
re-discover and get excited about science-themed books. To help us with one of
the aspects of the festival, The Big Science
Reading List, we'd like you to nominate your favourite books in
three different categories:
Popular Science
(factual science/biographies written in a style that is accessible to the lay
reader).
Examples might include:
Why Don't Penguins
Feet Freeze, Mick O'Hare
Galileo's Daughter,
Dava Sobel
The Selfish Gene,
Richard Dawkins
The Man Who Knew
Too Much, David Leavitt
A Brief History of
Time, Stephen Hawkins
Science Fiction
(science fiction and techno thrillers).
Examples might include:
Hitchhikers Guide
to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Foundation, Isaac
Asimov
Dune,
Frank Herbert
The Dispossessed,
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Lit
(literary fiction and poetry that explores science or technology as a core
theme).
Examples might include:
Oryx and Crake,
Margaret Atwood
Brave New World,
Aldous Huxley
Raw Shark Texts,
Steven Hall
Ascent, Jed
Mercurio
Zero Gravity, Gwyneth
Jones
The Drought,
J.G Ballard
You are allowed a maximum of two nominations per
category, though you don't have to nominate books in all three categories. In
each case, please tell us why you liked reading the book and what you think it
has to offer other readers. What made it special for you? Why did it inspire
you to nominate it?
Please email all nominations to [log in to unmask], marked
'Big Science Reading List nominations'
The deadline for all nominations will be Monday 28th January 2008. Once
we've received all your suggestions, we'll produce The Big Science Reading List, which will be launched in June at Jodrell Bank's First Move Festival and promoted nationwide. Authors on the list will be
invited to take part in the Big Science Read
Festival in October.
Many thanks for your help.
The
Big Science Read.