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1. Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama, Profile Books
2. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Media
3. The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking, Transworld
4. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge
5. Redesigning Humans by Gregory Stock, Profile Books
6. Project Orion by George Dyson, Allen Lane
7. It Must Be Beautiful by Graham Farmelo, Granta
8. Extinction by Michael Boulter, Fourth Estate
9. The Future of Life by E. O. Wilson, Time Warner
10. The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes, Corgi

Weighing in at a kilogram or so, Steven Wolfram’s long-awaited opus isn’t a book you’ll be tucking into your back pocket. But it’s selling well so is it, as Wolfram claims, the answer to everything in science? Robert Matthews offers an alternative view of Wolfram’s work on page 46.

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