Jack Cohen: Scientist Guest of Honour

Jack Cohen is a reproductive biologist who designs alien worlds and lifeforms. His new book The Collapse of Chaos (written with Ian Stewart: well known for the Scientific American "Mathematical Recreations" column) gives its readers a head start on the science of the future....

He's also the mind behind some of SF's most famous alien creatures: from the Phagors of Helliconia, across the alternate world that lies west of Eden, home of the intelligent dinosaur Yilane, to the implacable horror of the Grendels in Niven, Pournelle and Barnes' Legacy of Heorot.