Pickover, Clifford A
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1957- ) US scientist, journalist and author, best known for a wide range of nonfiction texts in which narrative illustrations from Mathematics and Biology and other sciences are used to stimulate the creativity and to awaken the urge to numeracy in his readers. These include Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty (1990) (see Computers), Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World (1994), Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide (1996) (see Black Holes), Time: A Traveler's Guide (1998) (see Time), The Science of Aliens (1998) (see Aliens), Dreaming of the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction (2001) (see Futures Studies; Prediction), and others.
Pickover's fiction includes Spider Legs (1998) with Piers Anthony; and the Neo-Reality sequence – comprising Liquid Earth (2002), The Lobotomy Club (2002), Sushi Never Sleeps (2002) and Egg Drop Soup (2002) – in which dramatized scientific issues are presented in the form of Thought Experiments. [DRL/JC]
Clifford A Pickover
born Ocean County, New Jersey: 15 August 1957
works
series
Neo-Reality
- Liquid Earth (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Lighthouse Press, 2002) [Neo-Reality: pb/]
- The Lobotomy Club (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Lighthouse Press, 2002) [Neo-Reality: pb/]
- Sushi Never Sleeps (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Lighthouse Press, 2002) [Neo-Reality: pb/Cliff Pickover]
- Egg Drop Soup (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Lighthouse Press, 2002) [Neo-Reality: pb/Cliff Pickover]
individual titles
- Spider Legs (New York: Tor, 1998) with Piers Anthony [hb/Latif Kazbekov]
- Spider Legs (New York: Open Road Media, 2014) with Piers Anthony [ebook: rev of the above: na/]
nonfiction (selected)
- Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty (New York: St Martin's Press, 1990) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World (New York: St Martin's Press, 1994) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide (Wiley, 1996) [nonfiction: hb/Mehau Kulyk]
- Time: A Traveler's Guide (Oxford University Press, 1998) [nonfiction: hb/Nancy Tolford]
- The Science of Aliens (New York: Basic Books, 1998) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Dreaming of the Future: The Fantastic Story of Prediction (Prometheus, 2001) [nonfiction: hb/]
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