BSLS book prize 2010

The following books have been shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2009:

• Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Harvard University Press)
• Leah Knight, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture (Ashgate, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
• Steven McLean, The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (University of Wales Press, Gothic Literary Studies)

Reviews of a number of these books are currently available on the reviews pages of the BSLS website. The prize itself will be announced at the BSLS conference in April.

REMINDER: Register for the BSLS conference by 15th March. Details here.