If any author deserves the tag “prolific” it’s Clifford Pickover. He’s written or edited 30 books on computers, creativity, time travel, science and religion. His latest is a maths book, The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars (Princeton, 2002). And he’s popular: pickover.com has attracted more than half a million visitors.
You wouldn’t think Pickover has much time left to read, but he’s storming through I, Asimov (Bantam, 1995), the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, one of his heroes. He’s also reading his own books, The Stars of Heaven (Oxford, 2001) and The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience (Palgrave, 2001), to prepare…
