“Informed, utterly blindsiding account.” - Booklist, starred reviewIt’s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis, one even ...

**“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment WeeklyA fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)**On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber’s anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, lur...

Sebastian thought he had his future mapped out: criminal justice degree, police academy, following in his grandfather's footsteps. But a failed colorblind test shattered those dreams, leaving him pushing beds and stretchers through the endless halls of a hospital. Nine miles of corridors. Hundreds of patients. And more death than any twenty-six-year-old should have to witness.Between morgue runs and dodging violent patients, Sebastian navigates a world where dark humor is the only ...

In this gripping sequel, Jason Baker awakens from his illness only to witness a new nightmare, for changing the timeline has consequences. Angel's life has been destroyed and his revolutionary breakthrough-a technology that defies the laws of reality-has unleashed unprecedented power and placed Earth's destiny in the crosshairs of a crimson-eyed architect of genocide.As Johnathan Kane shoulders the weight of his family's legacy, stained with his brother's blood, his new mission wil...

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselvesZombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans.In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind co...

Drafted into a world war that no country can win, young Jason is forced to witness the worst of humanity as everyone around him dies before he is thrown back in time by an explosion that kills him. Seemingly trapped in childhood with memories of a hopeless future haunting him, can Jason find a way to stop the war and save millions of lives if no one believes him?See firsthand how trauma changes a person, how quickly a good person can become a violent killer. This is Jason's story.

Jason figured it out, but not in time to change the future. He must pass his notes and the task of stopping World War III on to Angel. Once drafted into the military together in a parallel universe, the two are now friends in juvenile detention lockup before they meet in bootcamp. Angel only knows the poor, abused life he's had so far, but the time machine his dying friend wants him to build from his notebooks could change all of that.Young Barry Kane tries to live up to the family...

It's in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It's microplastic and it's everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the real trouble begins. The very thing that makes plastic so useful and ubiquitous...

From the man behind the popular Wired series "Absurd Creature of the Week," a fun, fascinating collection of unique animals and the unbelievable evolutionary traits they use to survive the most extreme scenarios From Wired columnist Matt Simon, The Wasp that Brainwashed the Caterpillar is an absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest solutions to - appropriately enough - the hazards that evolution itself produces. Each original entry talks about a creature and its amazing adaptat...

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselvesZombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose—and even humans.In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind co...

“A fascinating, provocative, and highly eccentric volume” (The New York Times) exploring the true story of Elisabeth Nietzsche’s maniacal attempt to found a utopian colony in the jungles of Paraguay in the late nineteenth century—from the bestselling author of Prisoners of the Castle.In 1886, Elisabeth Nietzsche, the bigoted, imperious sister of the famous philosopher, founded a “racially pure” colony in Paraguay with her husband, anti-Semitic agi...

In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business. There has been no examination of why we engineer roads that are literally killing us.In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthou...