Novacene by James Lovelock export we are on the brink

we are on the brink of a new era of lunar exploration

has produced a “fully realised successor” to earlier classics such as Religion and the Decline of Magicand Man and the Natural World

In his “tantalising and engaging” new novel

Although his mind had been unbalanced by his ordeal in prison

we know him so well that “it takes a heart of stone not to weep at the happy ending”

Novacene by James Lovelock export we are on the brinkMany people believe that super intelligent robots pose a serious threat to humanity. Not James Lovelock, said Steven Poole in The Guardian: in his new book, the 99 year old scientist and inventor displays a remarkably sanguine attitude to the coming machine takeover. Lovelocks term for the AI dominated future is theNovacene: soon, he argues, this will replace the Anthropocene, in which humans have been the dominant influence on the environment. In the