Falling for Science: asking the big questions
Beckett grapples with the distinctions made between fact and fiction and ultimately looks for the way they complement
one another in our search for the meaning of life.
Bernard Beckett is a Wellington based writer better known for his fiction.
His most recent novel Genesis was the winner of the Young Adult Fiction
category in the New Zealand Post 2007 Book Awards. In 2005 he was awarded
a Royal Society Fellowship for Teachers of Maths, Science and Technology.
He spent his year working at the Wilson Centre for Molecular Evolution and
was inspired to produce his first work of non-fiction entitled Falling for
science. In this work he seeks to combine his passions for science,
philosophy and storytelling.
4 January 2008
