fiction and non-fiction books
Biodiversity – Concept The title of this post, Biodiversity – Concept, is intended to encompass a summary for the series of several posts on biodiversity and its distinct but complimentary components. This is Post #1 of our Biodiversity Series. Importance of Biodiversity I had been aware for some time that conservation of the Earth’s biodiversity…
Change of Plan A change of plan: my new post series on cooperation is postponed. Sustainability and Biodiversity of Life on Earth I recently stumbled upon a recent book dealing with sustainability and the importance of biodiversity to life on Earth. The book is entitled: “The Hidden Universe, Adventures in Biodiversity”, by Alexandre Antonelli, and…
‘Life Series – Final Post’ is the ninth and final part of our ‘Life’ Series This ‘Life Series – Final Post’ is our last post of our series on “Life” and of our discussions of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. To avoid spoilers we have decided to leave the last…
In September 2025, Barrie Cameron began writing another novel. It is a new adventure in the Artume Project series. It includes Rebecca and some of the other characters from the Planetoid Trilogy novels. Cameron will announce the title of the new novel shortly. But he can reveal now that the story will take the reader…
Star Island From PLANETOID Trilogy: Book One ‘Star Island’, by Barrie Cameron and published by Seaswell Publishing: NEWS FLASH! Astrophysicist disappears at secret lab in Nevada! “Dr Rebecca Stillwater, recently appointed lead for Artume Project’s new experimental dark energy AXE project has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of prototype apparatus experiment!” In Paris, a specialist…
‘Do Living things have an Agenda?’ is Part Eight of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, ‘Do living things have an agenda?’, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross describes the teleonomic character of life as its most amazing property. But…
‘Life has Chiralty’ is Part Seven of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life has Chiralty, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Life has chirality, or ‘handedness’. That is to say that many of the molecules found in living systems (biomolecules)…
‘Is Life in Equilibrium?’ is Part Six of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Is Life in Equilibrium?, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Andy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. Pross introduced us to the idea that life’s organized complexity represents a thermodynamic puzzle. But related to…
‘Life is Diverse’ is Part Five of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life is Diverse, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. While non-living diversity in the Universe is arbitrary, living diversity appears to be deliberate and coherent. But the macroscopic…
‘Life is Dynamic’, is Part Four of our ‘Life’ Series In this post, Life is Dynamic, we continue our series on “Life” and our discussion of the ideas in Addy Pross‘s recent book, “What is Life?”. The non-living part of the Universe, the vast majority of the Universe, is static, unlike Life which is dynamic….