Our reviewers enjoyed the books on the the Rhône-Poulenc shortlist. If
you’re on the Net, search Planet Science’s archives for individual reviews
http://staging.newscientistbeta.com. If not, go to that pile of New Scientists that you’ve
been saving for a rainy day and track them down:
- Julian Brown on David Deutsch’s The Fabric of Reality (Allen Lane, £25/$29.95, ISBN 0713990619) in 22 March 1997
- Laurence Hurst on Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (Jonathan Cape, £18.99, ISBN 0224038095) in 30 August 1997
- Ted Nield reviewed Richard Fortey’s Life: An Unauthorised Biography (HarperCollins, £20, ISBN 0002555603) on 2 August 1997
- R. McNeill Alexander reviewed This is Biology by Ernst Mayr (Bellknap/Harvard, £19.95/$29.95, ISBN 067488468X) on 5 April 1997
- Richard Pinch on Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh (Fourth Estate, £12.99, ISBN 1857025210) on 17 May 1997
- And Roy Herbert reviewed Twins by Lawrence Wright (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.99, ISBN 0297819763) on 9 March 1998
