my book Corrupted Science re-reviewed

[realthog]

That nice man Jeff VanderMeer has posted a review of my book Corrupted Science on his blog "Ecstatic Days". In part he says:

As a writer and a reviewer, I sometimes come across a book that hasn’t gotten enough attention but seems to deserve that attention not just for its quality, but for its relevance. Corrupted Science by John Grant is one of these books. . . . This isn’t just a wonderfully written and relevant book—it’s also a beautiful little hardcover, lovingly put together . . .

There's lots more at http://www.jeffvandermeer.com:80/2008/04/18/corrupted-science-by-john-grant-resurrected/.

One of the oddities about Corrupted Science is that I, too, in my modest way thought it might be an important book. So did the UK publisher. So even did the book's designer, who sent me a string of e-mails spelling out how much he hoped people would read the book and get the message. Likewise the book's UK publicist. Unfortunately, the book's US distributor decided it'd be best marketed into the wacky-science-fun-for-kids market. Ya know, alongside books like The God Delusion and The Republican War on Science and Toys You Can Make in Your Own Back Yard. Somewhere out there you'll see a lot of very confused kids.

 

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

I thought so too! The book has had really a lot of fine reviews, most of them since the turn of the year and, at least in the US, exclusively by people who bought their own copies. The review list in the UK produced several reviews, again pleasingly excellent, from the likes of the Beeb. But it was always envisaged that the US was the most important market, because this is the country currently most at threat (at least in the West) from the ideological/political corruption of science, and to see it simply piffled away was . . . galling.