Brian Clegg is the author of A Brief History of Infinity, The First Scientist: A Life of Roger Bacon, Light Years: The Extraordinary Story of Mankind’s Fascination with Light, Upgrade Me: Our Search for Human 2.0, and Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe. He holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features, and reviews for numerous magazines. He also edits the www.popularscience.co.uk website.
One exchange from the Q & A:
Does [Goldie] have any influence on your writing?Among the early praise for Clegg's Before the Big Bang:Absolutely. I would recommend any writer to get a dog, because it’s very tempting to spend all your time in front of the keyboard, but having a dog means you have to go out for walks, and I get most of my best ideas on these dog walks. One of my books, Upgrade Me, was conceived in its entirety on a dog walk, and opens with a mention of taking Goldie out. I noticed how much easier she found it walking through a cold field with sharp thistles and nettles than I would without protective clothing, and it started me thinking about how we use different technologies to upgrade the basic human capabilities – the subject of the book.[read on]
"Clegg follows the footsteps of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Steven Hawking’s A Brief History of Time and Timothy Ferris’s Coming of Age in the Milky Way. He shares his predecessors’ enthusiasm,Follow Brian Clegg at http://www.twitter.com/brianclegg, and visit his website and blog.eloquence and ability to explain complex ideas but provides a bonus by covering startling developments of the past decade. Anyone looking for an introduction to or a refresher course in cosmology need look no further."
--Kirkus, starred review
Writers Read: Brian Clegg.
Coffee with a Canine: Brian Clegg and Goldie.
--Marshal Zeringue
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