Weird Life : The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2001) During the Christmas holidays in

During the Christmas holidays in 2004

winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called “as ambitious as [Norman] Mailer

From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance

Locke and his trusted partner

watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford

Weird Life : The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2001) During the Christmas holidays inIn the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists