Royal Society science book prize 2024 shortlist announced

In the UK, the shortlist for the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize has been announced, reports the Bookseller.

The six titles shortlisted for the £25,000 (A$48,482) award, selected from 254 submissions, are:

• Eve: How the female body drove 200 million years of human evolution (Cat Bohannon, Penguin)
• Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes’ remarkable theorem explains the world (Tom Chivers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
• Your Face Belongs to Us: The secretive AI startup dismantling your privacy (Kashmir Hill, S&S)
• The Last of Its Kind: The search for the great auk and the discovery of extinction (Gísli Pálsson, Princeton University Press)
• Why We Die: And how we live: The new science of ageing and the quest for immortality (Venki Ramakrishnan, Hodder & Stoughton)
• A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? (Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Particular Books).

The 2024 prize is judged by professor John Hutchinson; author Eleanor Catton; New Scientist comment and culture editor Alison Flood; teacher, broadcaster and writer Bobby Seagull; and lecturer and Royal Society University research fellow Jess Wade.

The winner will be announced on 24 October. Each of the five shortlisted authors will receive £2500 ($A4848).

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