Description: Explores the evolution and science surrounding dinosaurs and how films such as Jurassic World affected the study of dinosaurs.
Brief description: Mark Brake developed the world's first science and science fiction degree in 1999. He also launched the world's first astrobiology degree in 2005. He's communicated science through film, television, print, and radio on five continents, including for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, and Sky Movies. He was one of the founding members of NASA's Astrobiology Institute Science Communication Group. He has written more than a dozen books, including Alien Life Imagined for Cambridge University Press in 2012. Mark also tours Europe with Science of Doctor Who, Science of Star Wars, and Science of Superheroes road shows.
Review Quotes: "This book is a Jurassic joy: a lively and informative tour 'round dino-world. As packed with facts as a velociraptor's mouth is with teeth!"
--Adam Roberts, science fiction novelist and critic, award-winning author of Purgatory Mount
--Booklist