Henry Gee is a senior editor at Nature and the author of several books, including The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Jacob's Ladder, In Search of Deep Time, The Science of Middle-Earth, The Accidental Species, and A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, which won the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize. He has appeared on BBC television and radio and NPR's All Things Considered, and has written for The Guardian, The Times, and BBC Science Focus. He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets.
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, released March 2026.
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10, listed above with the newest first.
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