Here Be There Dragons: Exploring the Fringes of Knowledge, from the Rings of Saturn to the Mysteries of Memory Tapa blanda - 2017

Richard A. Lovett is a science writer, science fiction writer, sports writer, and more. He has ten times won the annual reader's choice (AnLab) award from Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, the largest print science fiction magazine in the English language, in which he has appeared a total of 170 times. In college, he majored in astrophysics, then went to law school, and collected a Ph.D. in economics. After a stint in academia, he became a journalist and science fiction writer with more than 50 short stories and 3,500 articles to his credit. He also coaches distance runners, including several Olympic Trials competitors, and has worked as a travel writer, humorist, hazardous-waste analyst, sports writer, food-safety writer and, most importantly, science writer with credits in most of the major magazines, including Science, Nature, National Geographic News, New Scientist, Scientific American, Cosmos, and Popular Science. It's a combination of interests that makes him unusually drawn to topics like those in this book: findings on the frontiers of science, where the social ramifications are often as fascinating as the science itself.