David Darling (born 29 July 1953 in Glossop, Derbyshire) is an English astronomer, 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[edit]

• We Are Not Alone: Why We Have Already Found Extraterrestrial Life (2010). ISBN 978-1-85168-719-0 (paperback)
• Gravity's Arc: The Story of Gravity from Aristotle to Einstein and Beyond (2006). ISBN 978-0-471-71989-2 (hardcover)
• Teleportation: The Impossible Leap (2005). ISBN 978-0-471-47095-3 (hardcover)
• The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes (2004). ISBN 978-0-471-27047-8 (hardcover)
• The Universal Book of Astronomy: From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Zone of Avoidance (2003). ISBN 978-0-471-26569-6 (hardcover)
• The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity (2002). ISBN 978-0-471-05649-2 (hardcover)
• Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology (2001). ISBN 978-0-465-01563-4 (hardcover)
• The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: An Alphabetical Reference to All Life in the Universe (2000) ISBN 978-0-8129-3248-5 (paperback)
• Zen Physics: The Science of Death, the Logic of Reincarnation (1996). ISBN 0-06-017352-1 (hardcover)
• Soul Search : A Scientist Explores the Afterlife (1995). ISBN 0-517-17819-2 (hardcover)
• Equations of Eternity: Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning, and the Mathematical Rules That Orchestrate the Cosmos (1993). ISBN 1-56282-875-4 (hardcover)
• Deep Time: The Journey of a Single Subatomic Particle From the Moment of Creation To the Death of the Universe and Beyond (1989). ISBN 0-385-29757-2 (hardcover)

Juvenile books

• Beyond 2000 series (1995–96)
  • Micromachines and Nanotechnology: The Amazing New World of the Ultrasmall ISBN 0-87518-615-7
  • Genetic Engineering: Redrawing the Blueprint of Life ISBN 0-87518-614-9
  • The Health Revolution: Surgery and Medicine in the Twenty-first Century ISBN 0-87518-616-5
  • Computers of the Future: Intelligent Machines and Virtual Reality ISBN 0-87518-617-3
• Experiment! series (1991–92)
  • Spiderwebs to Skyscrapers: The Science of Structure ISBN 0-87518-478-2
  • From Glasses to Gases: The Science of Matter ISBN 0-87518-500-2
  • Between Fire and Ice: The Science of Heat ISBN 0-87518-501-0
  • Sounds Interesting: The Science of Acoustics ISBN 0-87518-477-4
  • Up, Up and Away: The Science of Flight ISBN 0-87518-479-0
  • Making Light Work: The Science of Optics ISBN 0-87518-476-6
• Could You Ever? series (1990–91)
  • Could You Ever Live Forever? ISBN 0-87518-457-X
  • Could You Ever Build a Time Machine? ISBN 0-87518-456-1
  • Could You Ever Travel To the Stars? ISBN 0-87518-446-4
  • Could You Ever Meet an Alien? ISBN 0-87518-447-2
  • Could You Ever Speak Chimpanzee? ISBN 0-87518-448-0
  • Could You Ever Dig a Hole To China? ISBN 0-87518-449-9
• The World of Computers series (1986)
  • Inside Computers: Hardware and Software ISBN 0-87518-312-3
  • The Microchip Revolution ISBN 0-87518-313-1
  • Computers At Home: Today and Tomorrow ISBN 0-87518-314-X
  • Robots and the Intelligent Computer ISBN 0-87518-315-8
  • Fast, Faster, Fastest: The Story of Supercomputers ISBN 0-87518-316-6
• Discovering Our Universe series (1984–85)
  • The Sun: Our Neighborhood Star ISBN 0-87518-261-5
  • The Moon: A Spaceflight Away ISBN 0-87518-262-3
  • Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids: Rocks in Space ISBN 0-87518-264-X
  • The Planets: The Next Frontier ISBN 0-87518-263-1
  • Where Are We Going in Space ISBN 0-87518-265-8
  • Stars: From Birth to Black Hole ISBN 0-87518-284-4
  • Galaxies: Cities of Stars ISBN 0-87518-285-2
  • The Universe: Past, Present, and Future ISBN 0-87518-286-0
  • The New Astronomy: An Ever-Changing Universe ISBN 0-87518-288-7
  • Other Worlds: Is There Life Out There? ISBN 0-87518-287-9

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• cosmosportal.org, biography
• The Worlds of David Darling, official site