James Meek's new novel, The Heart Broke In , is a rare thing - a major fiction book aimed at a mainstream audience, with science - and scientists - front and center. It's a big, multilayered novel with multiple plot strands involving pop music, tabloid journalism and politics, but it should appeal especially to a science-loving audience through its depictions of dedicated young scientists working on potentially major discoveries while negotiating the challenges of love and family.(Full disclosure - I am neither a scientist nor a literary critic. I am the artist who painted the malaria-infected blood cells for the cover of the book. This post may contain some mild spoilers.) [More]














Source: A Novel with Science at its Heart