In my opinion, the book The First Light by acclaimed author, Richard Preston is one that is worth the time a person will spend to read it. Though it has a good hooker in the very beginning, the first few pages are tedious to get through, but if one endures those, then the rest of Preston's work i...
Richard Preston is known for his exceptionally well-researched works that outline true-life possibilities regarding fact-based scientific work. His work regarding the possibilities of threats to American and world life at the hands of biological terrorists is both mesmerizing from a scientific st...
Since March 2014 an epidemic of Ebola virus—specifically the Ebola Zaire strain—has been ravaging West Africa. More than 800 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have died so far. Here’s what Richard Preston has to say about Ebola Zaire in The Hot Zone: It attacks connective tissue with p...
CHILLING...My high school biology/chemistry teacher should see me reading a book like this one! She wouldn't believe it. That said, I've never been so good at science or biology and such, which is a shame since I'm interested in that and have always found it fascinating. I was recently interested...
In introducing this collection of essays, Richard Preston reflects on the nature and constraints of writing narrative non-fiction. Basically, Preston is using Panic as an opportunity to add to or modify his pieces (many of which originally appeared as articles in The New Yorker) and give the re...
Evening. A typical American town. On Catoctin Mountain, a ridge of the Appalachians that runs north to south through the western part of the state, the trees were brightening into soft yellows and golds. Teenagers drove their pickup trucks slowly along the streets of the town, looking for somethi...