Andrew Burt: 13 books

This debut book from Andrew Burt details the pivotal moments in American political history when outliers moved to the center, capturing the national spotlight and turning fringe politics mainstream. American Hysteria puts readers at the center of the nation’s most prominent periods of political...

How to avoid anachronisms in fiction to keep your prose timeless...So you're reading along in the Bourne Ultimatum, you're with Jason Bourne on the run, he's caught sneaking out to the car—interrogated by the baddies—and boom, he says, "I'm just driving out on the highway...

"Free to go" doesn't always exactly mean free to go...The smell was like fresh manure mixed with rancid milk  the best smell Fenn Tibarrien could have wished for. He recognized a few of the noxious odors that penetrated his breathing mask, and spoke in his mind what he knew the translator...

(Shhh! A Secret of Great Writing)An article originally published in the SFWA Bulletin on fascinating statistical correlations found between the amount of interpersonal relationships in "well regarded" vs. "ordinary" SF/F stories. In addition to the article are supplemental materials, including...

What does the future of transportation and racing look like? Join the last leg of the 2032 IDITEROC Race of Champions from Frisco to Denver. Sometimes it's about the journey, not the destination. Then again, sometimes it's not...

If you had a terrible secret, perhaps you'd find time dilation has its uses...

In the future, the Minuteman software system listens to all phone calls, reads all messages, watches everything, to keep Americans safe... but what happens when it mis-hears what someone says? Who's watching the watchers?

Sometimes I wish birds had never discovered that humans were intelligent...(If you like playing Angry Birds then you've got to read this one. First published in Outside SF / FarSector in 2003.)

We're living in a Simulated Universe? Are you sure?Pondering about the nature of the universe is always fun, isn't it? It's one of the cool things science fiction writers get to do.So, this Oxford philosopher "proves," mathematically, that either you're living in...

Colonists and crew crammed into a freight ship destined for a distant planet must find a way to survive when it turns into a plague ship... and the plague isn't the only kind of sickness they must overcome.EXCERPT:Captain Savola fell ill to ‘The Purge’ this morning. He collapsed...

Whoever says Pi is a constant simply hasn't checked it precisely enough — which may be a good thing!

She wanted my body. The problem was, I couldn't be exactly sure where to find it...

Fundamental Toxicology is a concise and comprehensive review of toxicology. It is based on the highly successful Fundamental Toxicology for Chemists and has been enriched and expanded. Every chapter in this new edition has been revised and updated, and four new chapters have been added. With contributions...