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Henry Gee

Henry Gee
Born 1962
London
Nationality England
Fields paleontologist
Institutions Nature
Notable awards European Science Fiction Society's in 2005

Dr Henry Gee (b. 1962 in London, England) is a British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. He is a senior editor of Nature, the scientific journal.[1]

Henry Gee's books include In Search of Deep Time,[2][3] A Field Guide to Dinosaurs with illustrations by Luis Rey, Jacob's Ladder, and The Science of Middle-Earth.

Gee's other writings include two works of free, on-line fiction, The Sigil and By The Sea.[4][5]

Futures

In 2005, Nature was awarded the European Science Fiction Society's Best Publisher award[6] for the "Futures" series of short articles and science fiction which Gee instigated in 1999. "Futures," briefly absent from Nature, was revived in 2007.[7] A collection of one hundred of the features which originally appeared in Nature between 1999 and 2006 was published in 2008 as Futures from Nature.[8]

Books

  • 1999: In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life. Sacramento: Comstock Publishing. (Note: The first chapter may be read on The New York Times website.) Hardcover: ISBN 0-68485-421-X. Paperback: ISBN 0-80148-713-7.
  • 2001: (second edition) Deep Time: Cladistics, the Revolution in Evolution. ISBN 1-85702-987-9.
  • 2003: A Field Guide To Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook For Travelers In The Mesozoic. Illustrations by Luis Rey. Hauppage: Barron's Educational Series. ISBN 0-76415-511-3.
  • 2004: Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-39305-083-1.
  • 2004: The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told! Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 2004 hardcover: ISBN 1-5936-0023-2. 2005 paperback: ISBN 0-28563-723-1.
  • 2008: (ed.) Futures from Nature. New York: Tor Books. ISBN 0-76531-805-9.

References

  1. ^ Nature. "About the editors" (html). http://www.nature.com/nature/about/editors/index.html. "Henry Gee, Senior Editor, Biology, London. Education: BSc, University of Leeds; PhD, University of Cambridge. Areas of responsibility include: aspects of integrative and comparative biology (including palaeontology, evolutionary developmental biology, taxonomy and systematics), archaeology and biomechanics." 
  2. ^ Anthony Campbell (2001). "Book review: In Search of Deep Time" (html). http://www.acampbell.ukfsn.org/bookreviews/r/gee.html. "Henry Gee, who is now Senior Editor of Nature, was a witness of this turmoil because he was working at the museum as a student in the 1970s, when he got to know the chief actors in the drama. He remains convinced that the science of cladistics is a vital intellectual tool for our understanding of what he calls Deep Time, to distinguish it from ordinary historical time, which he sees as being qualitatively as well as quantitatively different." 
  3. ^ "Gee Responds to Discovery Institute Use of Quotations" (html). National Center for Science Education. 15 October 2001. http://www.natcenscied.org/resources/articles/3167_pr90_10152001__gee_responds_10_15_2001.asp. "The Discovery Institute’s Viewers Guide to the PBS “Evolution” series… attempts to discredit the scientific implications of the human fossil record by quoting (on pages 11, 40, 47, 88, and 111) passages from the 1999 book In Search of Deep Time by Dr. Henry Gee, who is also Senior Editor, Biological Sciences, for the journal Nature. Dr. Gee has sent us the following comments." 
  4. ^ Henry Gee. "The Sigil" (html). ABurt iFiction Project. http://www.aburt.com/ifiction/stories/84/. 
  5. ^ Henry Gee. "By The Sea" (html). LabLit.com. http://www.lablit.com/series/4. "Set in present-day Norfolk, By The Sea blends science, murder, sex and Victorian secrets into a dark, gothic thriller." 
  6. ^ "The ESFS Awards, Eurocon 2005: Glasgow - Scotland" (html). European Science Fiction Society. http://www.esfs.info/esfs-awards-2000.html#2005. "Hall of Fame: Best Publisher: Nature (Henry Gee) (United Kingdom)" 
  7. ^ "Web Focus: Futures" (html). Nature (Additional samples on Science Fact & Science Fiction Concatenation). http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/arts/futures/index.html. 
  8. ^ Henry Gee, ed. "Futures from Nature: 100 Speculative fictions from the pages of the leading science journal" (html). New York City: Tor Books (1/1/2008). ISBN 0-7653-1805-9, ISBN 978-0-7653-1805-3. http://www.tor-forge.com/futuresfromnature. "With stories from: Arthur C. Clarke, Bruce Sterling, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Oliver Morton, Ian R. MacLeod, Rudy Rucker, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Barrington J. Bayley, Brian Stableford, Frederik Pohl, Vernor Vinge, Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda McIntyre, Kim Stanley Robinson, John M. Ford and eighty more." 







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