Meteorologist and astronomer Storm Dunlop insists his name has nothing to do with his interest in the weather. He鈥檚 just finished writing How to Identify Weather and How to Identify Night Sky (HarperCollins, April and September 2002) and is working his way through the definitive, yet gripping Encyclopedia of Volcanoes edited by Haraldur Sigurdsson (Academic Press, 1999) and Images in Weather Forecasting edited by M. J. Bader and others (Cambridge, 1995).
Work meets pleasure in Walter Baade: A life in astrophysics by Donald Osterbrock (Princeton, 2001). Dunlop says it鈥檚 not only an interesting biography about the man who made vital discoveries in stellar and galactic evolution, but also provides key insights into the history of astronomy.
Purely for pleasure, he鈥檚 just finished the latest of Lindsey Davis鈥檚 Falco novels, The Jupiter Myth (Century, 2002), which continues the plot of A Body in the Bath House, set at Fishbourne Roman Palace, not far from Dunlop鈥檚 West Sussex home. He鈥檚 also enjoying reading A. S. Byatt鈥檚 Possession (Chatto & Windus, 1990), although he feels the style of some of the poems, supposedly written by the Victorian characters, is a bit unconvincing.
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