Nonfiction Books of SFnal Interest
March 1999

* Auiler, Dan Hitchcock's Notebooks (Avon Spike 0-380-97783-4, $30.00, 567pp, hc, 1999) ''An authorized and illustrated look inside the creative mind of Alfred Hitchcock''. Massive assemblage of notes, scripts, storyboards, etc., from the film director's career; by the author of Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic. (Tue 16 Mar 1999)

* Dyson, Freeman The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions (NYPL/Oxford 0-19-512942-3, $22.00, 16+124pp, hc, April 1999) Three essays first given as lectures at the New York Public Library. (Tue 30 Mar 1999)

* Gould, Stephen Jay Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (Ballantine/Library of Contemporary Thought 0-345-43009-3, $18.95, 241pp, hc, March 1999) Short book about how science and religion should be able to get along. (Tue 9 Mar 1999)

* Shwartz, Ronald B., ed For the Love of Books (Grosset/Putnam 0-399-14466-8, $24.95, 20+297pp, hc, March 1999) 115 writers contribute essays about the books they love the most. None of the contributors are SF/F/H genre folk -- the closest are Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Kurt Vonnegut -- though a glance through the index of cited works does turn up books by Jack Finney, H. Rider Haggard, Jules Verne. (Fri 5 Mar 1999)

* Taliaferro, John Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan (Scribner 0-684-83359-x, $30.00, 400pp, hc, April 1999) Biography. (Mon 22 Mar 1999)

* Taylor, Michael Ray Dark Life (Scribner 0-684-84191-6, $23.00, 287pp, hc, April 1999) ''Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-Eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space''. (Tue 16 Mar 1999)

* Warner, Marina No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling & Making Mock (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-22301-7, $35.00, 12+435pp, hc, 1999) Study of men and fairy tales, or the role of horror in modern-day life. (See Field Inspections for reviews.) (Tue 16 Mar 1999)