- Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama, Profile Books
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media
- The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Transworld
- The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge
- Redesigning Humans by Gregory Stock, Profile Books
- Project Orion by George Dyson, Allen Lane
- It Must Be Beautiful by Graham Farmelo, Granta
- Extinction by Michael Boulter, Fourth Estate
- The Future of Life by E. O. Wilson, Time Warner
- The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes, Corgi
Weighing in at a kilogram or so, Steven Wolfram’s long-awaited opus isn’t a book you’ll be tucking into…
