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 Non-fiction Outside the Gates of Science: Why It's Time for the Paranormal to Come in from the ColdNovember 2008
The latest book by Cosmos fiction editor, Damien Broderick, is a scrupulous study of parapsychology and the alleged phenomena commonly grouped as 'psi': paranormal links between individuals and the external world, including other people.  The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of AntarcticaNovember 2008
The Ferocious Summer is primarily the story of the time that Meredith Hooper spent at Palmer Station, a small U.S. Antarctic facility on Anvers Island.  UniverseNovember 2008
A lavish, no-expense-spared piece of coffee table exotica, this book is a strong candidate for the best volume on astronomy available to the general reader.  Future FilesNovember 2008
Writer, speaker and futurist Richard Watson is upfront in calling Future Files a book for business, and the reader could be forgiven for expecting another treatise on how big business can extract more money out of us.  The Haunted ObservatoryNovember 2008
When we read the history of scientific ideas, almost invariably we read of a progression of linear advances that have led to our current level of understanding. Yet, in fact, science is a story in which most of the action occurs not on brightly lit pathways of progress but in blind alleys and darkened cul-de-sacs.  Glut: Mastering Information Through the AgesNovember 2008
In Glut, Alex Wright has crafted a worthy history lesson on classification systems. If that sounds dull, then consider it was humanity's passion for making lists and scribbling receipts that led to books, libraries, the democratisation of knowledge and - ta dah! – the Internet.  The Age of EverythingNovember 2008
The Age of Everything provides an explanation of some of the important ways that scientists are able to establish the age of objects, from archaeological artefacts to the universe itself.  What's Science Ever Done For Us?November 2008
You could argue that of all the freeze-dried cornmeal on television, The Simpsons most accurately depicts human behaviour – even though the cast are bright yellow.  Why is Uranus Upside Down?November 2008
Despite the cheeky title, the only bodies involved here are heavenly ones – but of the strictly astronomical kind.  Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the MachineNovember 2008
Will we ever see intelligent machines? Do we really want them? Beyond AI is a full-scale review as well as a defence of the artificial intelligence program – both its feasibility and its moral desirability.  Life in the UniverseJuly 2008
What is 'life' and how did something so delicate take hold in a universe that suffered such a violent birth? In Life in the Universe, Lewis Dartnell applies the relatively new discipline of astrobiology to those questions.  The New Time TravelersJuly 2008
In The New Time Travelers, technical writer David Toomey puts forward a positive, though cautious, case that we might one day travel through time.  Climate CrashJuly 2008
In Climate Crash, by John Cox, there is no debate about the scale of rapid climate change, just the facts about how it was discovered and theories on what triggers it.  Atoms and AlchemyJanuary 2008
William Newman highlights the work of Daniel Sennert, a German academic who in 1618 declared that since the transmutation of metals had been seen in nature, “the same can also be done by art”.  Why The Sky is BlueJanuary 2008
Why is the sky blue? It’s a question that has been asked for at least 2,500 years and presumably much longer. In this book, Hoeppe documents our attempts to answer the question, starting in the fourth century BC and continuing up to the present. 
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