Bill Bryson Credit: Guardian
By James Dacey
If loveable American wordsmith, and author of the multi-million selling popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, could be magically endowed with knowledge of just one of the sciences – which would he choose?
Yep you guessed correct – it’s physics.
That is what he told a bar full of fans on the final night here at the British Science festival in Guilford.
Still sporting substantial beard, Bill said that he has no plans of a sequel to his synoptic overview of science, but he would “love” to write about more specific areas of science – for example, “the human body”.
So, a call to fellow Bryson fans. I urge you to encourage the man – be it fan mail, public lecture, or chance encounter – to turn his pen to physics. Or better still, come up with a scheme to magically endow him with physics expertise – then the insightful prose can really start flowing…
