David Darling (born 29 July 1953 in Glossop, Derbyshire) is an Englishastronomer, freelance science writer, and musician. Darling has published numerous popular science works, including Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology in 2001 and The Universal Book of Mathematics in 2004. He maintains the online Internet Encyclopedia of Science.[1]
A review of Darling's book Soul Search, stated that "he develops a sort of scientific pantheism positing that, with death, we move from the narrow consciousness of our highly selective, reality-filtering brain to the wider, timeless consciousness of the unbound universe."[2]
Bibliography
We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life (2010). ISBN978-1-85168-719-0 (paperback)
Gravity's Arc: The Story of Gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond (2006). ISBN978-0-471-71989-2 (hardcover)
The Universal Book of Astronomy: From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Zone of Avoidance (2003). ISBN978-0-471-26569-6 (hardcover)
The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity (2002). ISBN978-0-471-05649-2 (hardcover)
Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology (2001). ISBN978-0-465-01563-4 (hardcover)
The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: An Alphabetical Reference to All Life in the Universe (2000) ISBN978-0-8129-3248-5 (paperback)
Zen Physics: The Science of Death, the Logic of Reincarnation (1996). ISBN0-06-017352-1 (hardcover)
Soul Search : A Scientist Explores the Afterlife (1995). ISBN0-517-17819-2 (hardcover)
Equations of Eternity: Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning, and the Mathematical Rules That Orchestrate the Cosmos (1993). ISBN1-56282-875-4 (hardcover)
Deep Time: The Journey of a Single Subatomic Particle From the Moment of Creation To the Death of the Universe and Beyond (1989). ISBN0-385-29757-2 (hardcover)
Juvenile books
Beyond 2000 series (1995–96)
Micromachines and Nanotechnology: The Amazing New World of the UltrasmallISBN0-87518-615-7
Genetic Engineering: Redrawing the Blueprint of LifeISBN0-87518-614-9
The Health Revolution: Surgery and Medicine in the Twenty-first CenturyISBN0-87518-616-5
Computers of the Future: Intelligent Machines and Virtual RealityISBN0-87518-617-3
Experiment! series (1991–92)
Spiderwebs to Skyscrapers: The Science of StructureISBN0-87518-478-2