If any author deserves the tag 鈥減rolific鈥� it鈥檚 Clifford Pickover. He鈥檚 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鈥檚 popular: pickover.com has attracted more than half a million visitors.
You wouldn鈥檛 think Pickover has much time left to read, but he鈥檚 storming through I, Asimov (Bantam, 1995), the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, one of his heroes. He鈥檚 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 for interviews.
His current read is Greg Egan鈥檚 Diaspora (HarperCollins, 1998), a science-fiction novel that discusses the future of humanity and contact with beings from higher dimensions.
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