The judges Professor Jean Fleming, Professor Michael Corballis and Dr Bryan Walpert said “The entries for the prize were a wonderful mix of books, with the authors telling science stories in a clear and accessible way.”
The three shortlisted titles for the 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize are:
• Poles Apart: Beyond the Shouting, Who is Right about Climate Change? by Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal (Random House)
• North Pole South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth’s Magnetism by Gillian Turner (Awa Press)
The Royal Society of New Zealand, our national science academy, established the biennial prize for popular science books in 2009 to celebrate the very best in this genre. It aims to encourage the writing, publishing and reading of good and accessible popular science books.
The prize is $5,000 for the winning author.
The winner of the inaugural Science Book Prize in 2009 was Rebecca Priestley for her book The Awa Book of New Zealand Science.
The 2011 overall winner will be announced at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival on Friday 13 May 2011.
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