science

Bright Air, Brilliant Fire

American biologist who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth’s life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war, leaving most animal species endangered or extinct

The Andromeda Strain

1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall

The Hunger Games

Series of young adult dystopian novels written by American author Suzanne Collins

The Selfish Gene

1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon the principal theory of George C. Williams’s Adaptation and Natural Selection . Dawkins uses the term “selfish gene” as a way of expressing the gene-centred view of evolution , popularising ideas developed during the 1960s by W. D. Hamilton and others