Packing for Mars by Mary Roach Mary Roach is one of my favorite non-fiction writers. She picks a topic and then explores every aspect of it in a humorous and scientific way. Her past books include: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science. In her latest, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, she takes a look at the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. She has an impeccable way of finding absurd and stranger-than-fiction tales to share that make it a hilarious and educational read. You can find out more about the book here.
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Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Mary Roach is one of my favorite non-fiction writers. She picks a topic and then explores every aspect of it in a humorous and scientific way. Her past books include: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science.

In her latest, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, she takes a look at the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. She has an impeccable way of finding absurd and stranger-than-fiction tales to share that make it a hilarious and educational read.

You can find out more about the book here.

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking Looks like it’s turning into SPACE month here as I post my latest cover, another book having very much to do with the universe: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.  Definitely an interesting and mind-bending read, I can’t say that I completely understand everything he lays out in here, but it’s certainly cool to think about. My cover uses the awesome desktop background artwork of Jon Ashcroft, which I encourage you to check out here.  Playing with the title text, I wanted it to serve as a staircase of sorts for the obsessed stargazer to get down into his telescope viewing room…
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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

Looks like it’s turning into SPACE month here as I post my latest cover, another book having very much to do with the universe: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. 

Definitely an interesting and mind-bending read, I can’t say that I completely understand everything he lays out in here, but it’s certainly cool to think about.

My cover uses the awesome desktop background artwork of Jon Ashcroft, which I encourage you to check out here. 

Playing with the title text, I wanted it to serve as a staircase of sorts for the obsessed stargazer to get down into his telescope viewing room…

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean Admittedly, this is one of the nerdier books I’ve taken on, but if you were ever a fan of Bill Nye the Science Guy, you should check this one out. In The Disappearing Spoon, Science magazine reporter Sam Kean takes on the periodic table and tells short funny and interesting tales associated with each of the elements.  For my cover, I used the periodic table as inspiration and flooded the space with random elements, leaving white space to fill in the shape of the disappearing spoon of the title. You can find out more about the book here.
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The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Admittedly, this is one of the nerdier books I’ve taken on, but if you were ever a fan of Bill Nye the Science Guy, you should check this one out. In The Disappearing Spoon, Science magazine reporter Sam Kean takes on the periodic table and tells short funny and interesting tales associated with each of the elements. 

For my cover, I used the periodic table as inspiration and flooded the space with random elements, leaving white space to fill in the shape of the disappearing spoon of the title.

You can find out more about the book here.

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