Review: A Fabulous Scientific Detective Story For Lay Readers!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2013
Konstantin Kakaes has the remarkable ability to make complex science easy to read by philosophy majors like me. This wonderful story reminded me of those delightful Atlantic Monthly magazine articles of my youth that you could read in an afternoon or two. The Pioneer Detectives is a scientific thriller that had me turning pages (or whatever you call the equivalent on a Kindle!) in a mad rush so that I could follow this tale to its fabulous conclusion. What is so special about this book is that it makes what could have been a dense scientific treatise as readable as a sports story in the Sunday paper. This was a remarkable short book. I hope it is widely read, and I hope Konstantin Kakaes will continue to write about science in a way that makes it accessible to everyone in America. Congrats to Kakaes and to the Kindle Singles editorial team. You hit one out of the park. This is a new way to present excellent writing to a wider public at low cost, and I am certain it will take off beyond all your expectations.