Publishers Weekly is reporting that Colin Dickerman at Penguin Press has bought North American rights to Lewis Dartnell’s Aftermath for $500,000, via US agent PJ Mark of Janklow & Nesbit.
Dickerman said the book is “unusual,” which is what “makes it valuable.” Of the book, he said it’s “a history of scientific thought, and also a primer on the most important scientific concepts.”
Mark’s pitch letter said Aftermath “takes the end of the world as its starting point” and then “provides the reader with a tool kit: the essential knowledge survivors of an apocalypse would need in order to start rebuilding a technological society from scratch, from methods for scavenging in the dead cities… to the best ways to restart agriculture.”
Related articles previously published on SFScope:
Lewis Dartnell sells book providing survivors of the apocalypse what they’ll need to know (11 January 2012)