Author Chat - Dr. George Paxinos - "A River Divided"

Strange and Beautiful Book Club

We had a lovely chat with Dr. George Paxinos about his one (and only) fiction novel after a career of writing for scientific publication.

Professor George Paxinos is the scientist who mapped the brain of humans and the principal experimental animals. He studied at Berkeley, McGill and Yale and was a visiting scientist at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and UCLA. As brain cartographers before him, he publishes his work principally in books, 57 in his case. His first, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited publication in neuroscience and, for three decades, the third most cited book in science.

The First edition of his Atlas of the Human Brain received The Award for Excellence in Publishing in Medical Science from The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the latest edition the British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award. His Human Brainstem was a 2020 PROSE Award finalist (AAP).

After a 21-year effort, Paxinos wrote a novel in the environmental genre: Orwellian in its encapsulation of the quintessential moral and social dilemmas of the 21st century, A River Divided shows Paxinos is also a storyteller. Cloned ancient genes skip two thousand years to produce identical twins who are raised apart, unaware of the others existence, but destined to clash in an almighty battle for the Amazon.

Find out more about him here: https://neura.edu.au/researchers/scientia-professor-george-paxinos-ao

Find a copy of his book here: https://neura.edu.au/resources/content/ARiverDivided.pdf
Or support the author and purchase a copy here: Amazon purchase link!

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