Is the distinction between 'real' and 'fake' as clear cut as we might think?
Lydia Pyne is a writer and historian, interested in the history of science and material culture. She has degrees in history and anthropology and a PhD in history and philosophy of science from Arizona State University. Her field and archival work has ranged from South Africa, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, and Iran, as well as the American Southwest. She is the author of Bookshelf (Bloomsbury 2016); Seven Skeletons: The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils (Viking 2016); and the co-author, with Stephen J. Pyne, of The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene (Viking 2012.) Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, History Today, Time, The Scientist, Nautilus, The Appendix, Lady Science, and Electric Literature as well as The Public Domain Review; she is currently a visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Lydia lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an avid rock climber and mountain biker.
The best chapters in Ms. Pyne's book marry fine scientific
explanation with cultural history and surprising twists.
*Wall Street Journal*
Lively, thought-provoking, and consistently surprising, this book
forces us to think deeper about what authenticity and fakery really
mean, at a time when such matters could hardly matter more. Lydia
Pyne is the real deal.
*Ed Yong, science journalist and author of New York Times
bestseller I Contain Multitudes*
Full of diverting tales.
*Mail on Sunday*
In turns thought-provoking and entertaining, Genuine Fakes is a
vital book in a world of fake news and the search for authenticity.
It is an eloquent and surprising exploration of the objects around
us, which compels us to ask where we draw the line between real and
fake. Sometimes authenticity is no more important than a good
story.
*Kate Wiles, Senior Editor, History Today*
Genuine Fakes is full of fascinating stories about what Pyne shows
is the thin and permeable line between real and fake in many more
areas than I thought possible to combine so interestingly and
gracefully. The book is packed with the human foibles that leave us
vulnerable to the fake when our dreams are too big to be contained
in the real.
*Erin Thompson, Professor of Art Crime, City University of New
York*
In this fascinating, interdisciplinary study, Lydia Pyne challenges
us to reflect on the social factors that inspire the creation of
replicas, simulations, and forgeries. Ambitious in scope and
engagingly written, Genuine Fakes is an authentically wonderful
read.
*Benjamin Gross, Vice President for Research and Scholarship, Linda
Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology*
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