The Best Australian Science Writing 2014
Nov 2014 · Best Australian Science Writing Book 2 · NewSouth
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About this ebook
The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year.
Why are Sydney’s golden orb weaver spiders getting fatter and fitter? Could sociology explain the recent upsurge in prostate cancer diagnoses? Why were Darwinites craving a good storm during ‘The Angry Summer’? Is it true that tuberculosis has become deadlier over time? And are jellyfish really taking over the world?
Now in its fourth year, this popular and acclaimed anthology steps inside the nation’s laboratories and its finest scientific and literary minds. Featuring prominent authors such as Tim Flannery, Jo Chandler, Frank Bowden and Iain McCalman, as well as many new voices, it covers topics as diverse and wondrous as our ‘lumpy’ universe, the creation of dragons and the frontiers of climate science.
About the author
Ashley Hay is an Australian author of fiction and nonfiction. She has written over twenty-five essays and short stories. In 2016, she won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her work, The forest at the edge of time. It was first published in the Australian Book Review and will also be included in the anthology The Best Australian Science Writing 2016. Her novels include The Railwayman's Wife which won the 2013 Colin Roderick Prize and the People's Choice Award at the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize, The Body in the Clouds, and A Hundred Small Lessons. Her nonfiction books include Museum (with Robyn Stacey), Herbarium (with Robyn Syacey), Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions, and The Secret: The Strange Marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron. She was the editor of Best Australian Science Writing 2014.
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