Assisted by the immortal, weed-smoking saur Salasso, the human scientist Grigor Cairns studies the kraken-like squids who inhabit Mingulay’s oceans; he also gets involved in a love triangle involving a fellow marine biologist and the beautiful daughter of a space trader. The book’s ...
A key text in the days when the “New Atheism” was much talked about, The God Delusion is a hard-hitting attack on religion, full of Dawkins’s confidence that faith produces fanatics and all arguments for God are ridiculous. What the evolutionary biologist lacks in philosophical sophistication...
Dr. Park calls and invites me out for lunch, suggesting bi bim bap. Dr. Park, aka "The Spin Doctor" (to be explained), is a research biologist at Seoul National University Hospital and my neighbor here in Jewelry City. He does genetic research on diabetes. We head outside (beautiful d...
— Marion Winik Buy It: Amazon, Bookshop.org 02 of 214 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Crown Gone for months after her submarine sinks, Miri's marine biologist wife finally returns — but she seems to be a creature from another world, drifting ever further from Miri's...