The Best American Science Writing 2001 edited by Timothy Ferris,
HarperCollins, $27.50, ISBN 0066211646
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001 edited by Edward O. Wilson,
Houghton Mifflin, $13.00, ISBN 0618153594
YES, you can tell them apart. But you can also bet the two publishers cursed
last year when they discovered the other was also launching an annual anthology
to bring together some of the best science writing published in American
newspapers and magazines. They even follow the same drill, employing a regular
editor to do the heavy work of skimming and Xeroxing, and a big-name volume
editor to…
