PD Smith
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | I’m a writer and independent researcher interested mainly in science & literature. My cultural history of science, superweapons and other strangeloves, "Doomsday Men", is published by Penguin in the UK, St Martin's Press in the US & Companhia das Letras in Brazil. If you want to know more, check out my website, 'Kafka's mouse' at http://www.peterdsmith.com. |
| Interests | popular science, science and literature, cities, science fiction, cold war, Dr Strangelove, Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Teller, Doomsday, superweapons, weapons of mass destruction, photography, scientists, Godzilla, Frankenstein, JG Ballard, Kurt Vonnegut, German literature, pulp fiction, 1950s sci-fi, ... |
| Favorite movies | Dr Strangelove, The Matrix, The Life of Brian... |
| Favorite music | Doghouse Music, Brian Eno, Keith Jarrett... |
| Favorite books | The Periodic Table, Hopeful Monsters, Ada or Ardor... |