It's publication day for The Blue Machine in the US and Canada. Same book, with a different subtitle and miles in some places instead of km (but still mostly SI units, yay!).
If you're an ocean scientist and your family don't understand what you do and why, this might help.
"I love Helen Czerski’s writing, and this is her richest work yet—as clear as springwater, yet as filled with fascinating things as the ocean itself."- Sarah Bakewell
@helenczerski Thank you for narrating the audiobook version yourself (which narration, BTW, is really terrific). I’m blind and so doomed to use audiobooks, and I find that too often scientists farm out audio narration to people who clearly don’t understand what they’re reading, which makes listening difficult/painful. So thanks for taking the time to do it yourself. #Ocean#BlueMachine#Books#Audiobooks#Bookstodon
If you fancy 20 minutes of big ideas about the ocean in your evening, here's my talk at this year's Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle. It sets out some of the big ideas in Blue Machine, and there are pictures too.
It was lovely to talk about Blue Machine yesterday to a packed Books Tent at the Wilderness festival near Oxford. Places that let us all hear about new ideas and develop our thinking are so important, and it’s great to see so many festivals providing those spaces. And tent bookshops are ace! #BlueMachine#Books#Ocean
It still blows my mind that the last “Bovril Boats” didn’t stop operating in the Thames until 1998. 1998 ! Their job was to take Lordon’s sewage down the Thames from Beckton and to dump it into the North Sea (but oh, on the ebb tide, so that was ok). Dumping anything in the ocean is an admission that our systems on land have failed, but in this case it was failure by design. We cannot continue to treat the ocean like this. #ocean#sewage
Blue Machine is out on Thursday, but it's also Radio 4's Book of the Week next week, starting on Monday, perfectly timed to coincide with World Ocean Day (June 8th). It's time to talk about the ocean itself - the water itself, not just the fish, dolphins & pollution - and it's a MASSIVE story. Share the ocean love! #Ocean#BlueMachine
Physical copies have arrived! Blue Machine is out on June 1st in the UK and October 3rd in the US (with a different cover design). https://linktr.ee/bluemachinebook
The story of the ocean - the water itself, not the dolphins, fish and plastic in it - is the biggest story on Earth. If you’ve ever posed the Monty Python style question “but WOT has the ocean ever done for us?”, here’s your answer. #ocean#BlueMachine
The obligatory photo of what I’m up to today: recording the audiobook of Blue Machine. It turns out that someone wrote a LOT of words. #ocean#book#BlueMachine