Overview
Publisher, Development Editor & Ghost Writer. I've over 25 years' industry experience at the likes of Oxford University Press and Pearson/Addison-Wesley, as well as contributing significantly to setting up the Quercus nonfiction publishing program. I've also written three novels (the Johnny Mackintosh stories) for Quercus, been awarded two international writing fellowships and penned one nonfiction book (The Future in Minutes) for Quercus/Hachette.I love helping authors achieve their goals and have their voice come through in a book. The author/editor relationship is very important to me and over my career I've been privileged to work with some of the world's greatest minds. On receiving his advances, Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar wrote to me, "The book is beautiful beyond compare and with a friendship gained besides". Contemporary thinker (and with our book together, now a New York Times bestselling author) Nick Bostrom has described me as "a hero of publishing".Please get in touch if you've an interesting concept and want me to help with the book proposal, or work with you on an early draft, or polish the completed manuscript. I enjoy working in very many subject areas, but if you have a book about space/cosmology or the future of humanity, I'll be delighted.
Services
Non-Fiction
Children’s Non-Fiction
Computers & Internet
Earth, Space, & Environmental Sciences
Entertainment
Math & Science
Philosophy
Physics & Chemistry
Technology
Languages
English (UK)
English (US)
Work experience
Penguin Press
Mar, 2022 —
Present
Publishing trade nonfiction, with a particular focus on science and the future, while also bringing out some Penguin Classics.
Self-employed
Jan, 2016 —
Present
Writing fiction and nonfiction books, scripting television shows and providing freelance publishing services.
Oxford University Press
Jun, 2009 —
Dec, 2015
(over 6 years)
Book publisher responsible for many science subjects, including mathematics, statistics, computer science, astronomy, existential risk, and history and philosophy of science.
Self-employed
Oct, 2004 —
Apr, 2009
(over 4 years)
Authored three science fiction novels for Quercus books, scripted several primetime TV shows, worked as book publisher for the British Film Institute and helped build up the Quercus nonfiction list of books in several areas but with a focus on popular science.
Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education
Jun, 1997 —
Sep, 2004
(over 7 years)
Publisher for computer science, specializing in higher education textbooks. Created a brand new programme in computer games programming and commissioned Pearson Education's very first online training materials.
Oxford University Press
Jan, 1996 —
May, 1997
(over 1 year)
Overseeing a team of ten development editors taking on science and medical books.
Oxford University Press
Jan, 1992 —
Dec, 1995
(almost 4 years)
Developed more than 150 projects (trade and academic) from contract through to publication.
Pergamon Press
Sep, 1989 —
Jan, 1992
(over 2 years)
Editor of numerous scientific encyclopedias across a range of scientific and medical subjects.
Portfolio
People in London are being taken away in unmarked police vans, never to be seen again... While trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his football team stays top of the league, it's Johnny's job to safeguard planet Earth. Suspicious of the stra... read more
Invaders have exploded the sun's nearest star. Will the death of Earth's sun be next? While trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his football team stays top of the league, it's Johnny's job to safeguard planet Earth. When invaders turn a near... read more
When thirteen-year-old Johnny's talking computer Kovac detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change for ever. Until then, stuck in his children's home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr Wilkins watching his every move, football... read more
The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past. Such events are the subject of Day... read more
A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a... read more
"This book should be a requirement of anyone that wants to write games ¿ period"André Lamothe, author and CEO of Xtreme Games There are many books on the art of games programming but now acclaimed author Rudy Rucker has gone a step beyond and transformed it in... read more
What exactly is the elusive ingredient that makes a game worth playing? To create a great game you need passion, imagination, talent, a good understanding of game-play and design, experience, a dedicated team, good project management and lots of hard work. Eve... read more
There is a widely held conception that progress in science and technology is our salvation, and the more of it, the better. This, however, is an oversimplified and even dangerous attitude. While the future will certainly offer huge changes due to such progress... read more
Analysis (sometimes called Real Analysis or Advanced Calculus) is a core subject in most undergraduate mathematics degrees. It is elegant, clever and rewarding to learn, but it is hard. Even the best students find it challenging, and those who are unprepared o... read more
Every year, thousands of students declare mathematics as their major. Many are extremely intelligent and hardworking. However, even the best will encounter challenges, because upper-level mathematics involves not only independent study and learning from lectur... read more
Relax: no one understands technical mathematics without lengthy training but we all have an intuitive grasp of the ideas behind the symbols. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), this book... read more
From the Publisher What are time and space? When and how did the universe begin - and how will it end? Why has such a rich variety of celestial objects come into being? And was life an inevitable development in the cosmos? The answers to our most profound ques... read more
The universe stretches at least 130 billion trillion kilometers in every direction around us. The magnificent vault of stars is gloriously on display in this deluxe, slip-cased edition--a perfect gift for star-lovers of all ages. Cosmos makes sense of this diz... read more
One of the most revealing snapshots of British cinema-going ever produced, The Ultimate Film is the definitive list of the all-time top 100 films based on UK cinema admissions. From the 1930s to the present, the chart shows the diverse tastes that come togethe... read more
In this book, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.
In a series of 50 accessible and lucidly written essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, beliefs, justice, language, meaning and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era o... read more
As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler’s law of planetary motion and Newton’s law of gravitation, Joanne Baker unravels the sometimes baffling complexities of modern scientific the... read more
Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, bu... read more
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brai... read more
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