The Age Of Wonder

The book received very good reviews, and made several Best Books of 2009 lists, including the New York Times' Ten Best list.[5] Mike Jay of the Daily Telegraph wrote: "Scientists, like poets, need a sense of wonder, a sense of humility and a sense of humour. Holmes has all three in abundance".[6] Peter Forbes of The Independent wrote of the book:

The Age of Wonder

As it happened so often before, fiction by authors of early wonder and adventure tales, such as H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, William Rice Burroughs, and others, provided man (and particularly children and youngsters) with hopes and fantasies about machines that featured technology not yet been invented to dream a while.