PD Smith
Author, currently writing my fifth book, on crime, detectives and the city.
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Website | Kafka’s mouse
Website | Kafka’s mouse
PD Smith | Encyclopedia.com
PD Smith | Encyclopedia.com
Smith, P.D. 1965- (Peter D. Smith)PERSONAL:Born 1965. Education: University of Kent, B.A., 1992; University College, London, England, M.A., 1993, Ph.D., 1997; also attended Munich University.CAREER:Author. Former editorial photographer for newspapers and magazines, including Daily Telegraph (London, England) and Homes and Gardens. Assistant to Liz Calder, Bloomsbury Publishing. Instructor, University College, London, 2003-04, and honorary research fellow. Source for information on Smith, P.D. 1965- (Peter D. Smith): Contemporary Authors dictionary.
Essay | The private lives of Franz K.
Essay | The private lives of Franz K.
Book | City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
Book | City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
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Book | Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon
Book | Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon
Buy 'Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon'
Buy 'Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon'
It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War’s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity’s nightmare vision of a superweapon, showing how popular culture, from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove itself have both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams.
Book | Einstein
Book | Einstein
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Review essay | The public and private lives of Albert Einstein
Review essay | The public and private lives of Albert Einstein
Review essay | PD Smith celebrates the centenary of Einstein's theory of relativity
Review essay | PD Smith celebrates the centenary of Einstein's theory of relativity
PD Smith celebrates the centenary of Einstein's theory of relativity, as he rounds up the best of the current crop of books on the 20th century's greatest scientist.
Book | Metaphor & Materiality: German Literature & the World-view of Science 1780-1955
Book | Metaphor & Materiality: German Literature & the World-view of Science 1780-1955
Essay | Writers in Sussex revisited
Essay | Writers in Sussex revisited
Guardian: What we’re reading - The Martin Beck detective novels
Guardian: What we’re reading - The Martin Beck detective novels
Essay | Elective Affinity: A Tale of Two Cultures?
Essay | Elective Affinity: A Tale of Two Cultures?
Review | Reality+ by David J Chalmers
Review | Reality+ by David J Chalmers
A mind-bending philosophical investigation that argues virtual worlds are just as real as anything else we experience
Essay | Science & the City: Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz
Essay | Science & the City: Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz
Essay | Faust, the Physicists and the Atomic Bomb
Essay | Faust, the Physicists and the Atomic Bomb
Review | The Fire by Daniela Krien
Review | The Fire by Daniela Krien
Literary Agency | Curious Minds
Literary Agency | Curious Minds
Review | Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo
Review | Planta Sapiens by Paco Calvo
Reviews for The Guardian
Reviews for The Guardian
Reviews for the Times Literary Supplement
Reviews for the Times Literary Supplement
PD Smith on Flickr
PD Smith on Flickr
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