Go Buy Microcosm Right Now!

Carl Zimmer may be my favorite science writer around today (others seem to agree), so I'm excited to report that his new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life hit the shelves yesterday. I had the opportunity to read it in manuscript form, and it's really an exceptional book -- what Carl calls an "(un)natural history of E. coli" -- the world's most famous microbe. Having just published a book that partially starred a bacterium myself, I know how hard it is to make a book about microbial life engaging to human readers, but Carl pulls it off brilliantly here -- it's creepy, mind-twisting, and delightful all at the same time. It's the kind of book that literally expands your perspective on the world -- it helps you see how this alternative universe of tiny life forms is bound up crucially in our own day-to-day experience. So go check it out now....

Comments

[Steven]

I read your book "Ghost Map" and thoroughly enjoyed it. I am a microbiology undergraduate so I would probably be expected to :-D.

I purchased the rest of your books and will be reading them (along with about 100+ others) once my exams are over for this semester.

I am also looking forward to Carl's new book Microcosm. I have read Carl's previous books, he is a great writer.

Regards

Steven

[Calvin Stowell]

I was wondering how you feel about the current generation being declared the dumbest generation for the exact reasons you argue we're the smartest in your book Everything Bad is Good for You

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/dumbestgeneration/

Can you please write something against the guy who wrote the book "The Dumbest Generation"?

I want to see him get owned.