Novacene

The hard science is explained with beautiful clarity, and a characteristic mischievous wit … It is a bracing corrective – Steven Poole * Guardian *This restlessly thoughtful and forward-looking book … is partly a defence of a lifetime’s ideas, but mostly an argument about how AI is soon to overtake us - and what that means for our species – James McConnachie * The Times *Leavened with wit and optimism … Novacene is the collected wisdom of an elder of our tribe which more than repays the short time it takes to read. – Stephen Cave * Financial Times *Novacene reads like undiluted Lovelock. From the start of his writing life - no matter how tortuous the narrative or complex the argument - Lovelock has written persuasively. … if you want a sense of hyperintelligence in bipedal form, Novacene is a good place to start. – Tim Radford * Nature *

James Lovelock, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974, is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and the originator of the Gaia Hypothesis (now Gaia Theory). His many books on the subject include Gaia- A New Look at Life on Earth (1979), The Revenge of Gaia (2006), The Vanishing Face of Gaia (2009) and A Rough Ride to the Future (2014). In 2003 he was made a Companion of Honour and in 2005 Prospect magazine named him one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals, and in 2006 he received the Wollaston Medal, the highest Award of the UK Geological Society.