Nigel Calder

Early life

Career

Personal life

Death

Works

• 1957 Electricity Grows Up—author, for Phoenix
• 1957 Robots—author, for Phoenix
• 1958 Radio Astronomy—author, for Phoenix
• 1965 The World in 1984—editor, for Penguin etc.
• 1967 The Environment Game—author, for Secker, Holt, etc.
• 1968 Unless Peace Comes—editor, for Allen Lane, Viking etc.
• 1969 The Violent Universe—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1969 Technopolis—author, for McGibbon & Kee, Shuster, etc.
• 1970 The Mind of Man—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1970 Living Tomorrow—author, for Penguin Education
• 1972 The Restless Earth—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1973 Nature in the Round—editor, for Weidenfeld
• 1973 The Life Game—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1974 The Weather Machine—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1976 The Human Conspiracy—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1977 The Key to the Universe—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1978 Spaceships of the Mind—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1979 Einstein's Universe—author, for BBC, Viking, etc. – reissued 2005
• 1979 Nuclear Nightmares—author, for BBC, Viking, etc.
• 1980 The Comet is Coming!—author, for BBC, Viking, etc. – reissued 1994
• 1983 Timescale: Atlas of the Fourth Dimension—author, for Viking etc.
• 1983 1984 and Beyond—author, for Century and Viking
• 1986 The English Channel—author, for Viking and Chatto
• 1986 The Green Machines—author, for Putnam, etc.
• 1988 Future Earth—a contributing editor, for Croom-Helm, etc.
• 1990 Scientific Europe—general editor, for Foundation Scientific Europe
• 1991 Spaceship Earth—author, for Viking UK etc.
• 1992 Giotto mission to the Comets—author, for Presswork and Springer
• 1993 Hubble Space Telescope: The Harvest So Far—author, for European Space Agency
• 1994 Comets: Speculations and Science—reissue by Dover of The Comet is Coming!
• 1995 Beyond This World—author, for European Space Agency
• 1997 The Manic Sun—author, for Pilkington Press etc.
• 1999 Success Story: 30 Discoveries—compiler, for European Space Agency
• 2003 Magic Universe: The Oxford Guide to Modern Science—author, for Oxford UP, etc.
• 2005 Einstein’s Universe – author, for Penguin UK & US, etc.
• 2005 Albert Einstein: Relativity – introduction to a Penguin Classic, Penguin US
• 2007 The Chilling Stars – joint author with Henrik Svensmark for Icon Books, etc.