1999

  • What’s the Big Idea: Artificial Intelligence

    What’s the Big Idea: Artificial Intelligence

    “Can Computers Think?” asks the subtitle of this book. Like its sibling title, ‘What’s the Big Idea: Alien Life‘, this book was great fun to write. Working closely with the brilliant illustrator, Andrew McLynn, was a real pleasure, and explaining the history of attempts to make computers intelligent was a challenge I took on gladly.…

  • Baby Makers: the History of Artificial Conception

    Baby Makers: the History of Artificial Conception

    I vividly remember the moment my agent asked if I wanted to write this one. Until that time, I had written only children’s books, but this was a very different project. Commissioned to accompany a major Channel 4 series commemorating the 25th anniversary of the birth of the first ‘test tube baby’, this book was…

  • Learn About Rocks and Minerals

    Learn About Rocks and Minerals

    Inside the pages of this book is a great mixture of information, explanation and practical demonstrations to do at home. It was fun to write – another book that caused me to have fun and make a mess in the kitchen! From the publisher: “Discover the amazing world beneath your feet with Learn About Rocks…