Awards

• Winner of IndieFab awards (Philosophy) 2003

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Radiant Cool is likely to become a campus classic. -- Durrants ... ingenious and compelling. -- Jonathan Derbyshire, Time Out London As Lloyd's final pages make clear, consciousness may in principle by partly opaque. -- George Scialabba, Boston Sunday Globe A deft and engrossing noir mystery. -- Daniel C. Dennett, TLS ... [A] book that is both a gripping story and an intellectual challenge. -- Susan Blackmore, NewScientist Other writers...have used literature to illuminate science. Lloyd...[has] done it the other way round. -- Walter Ellis, Times Higher Education Supplement Radiant Cool has the makings of a gripping noir thriller, but the novel is also a serious work of scholarship. -- Emily Eakin, New York Times Dan Lloyd has written a witty and ingenious fable about the puzzles and paradoxes of the phenomenon of consciousness, with an illuminating nonfictional appendix expounding his own take on the subject. He manages to be both entertaining and instructive about a complex subject. --David Lodge, author of Thinks... Somehow the brain must be the mind-- your brain must be your mind. How can we get to a vantage point from which we can understand this? The steady march of neuroscience, or the mincing crabwalk of academic philosophy, will take you only a few steps. Dan Lloyd has found a delicious way of seducing our imaginations into brand new places, the places we have all been trying to reach: try mind dancing, in this new genre, the neuroscience novel of consciousness. --Daniel Dennett, author of Brainchildren, Conciousness Explained, and Freedom Evolves. Dan Lloyd may not have solved the mystery of consciousness, but he has done something nearly as difficult: he has turned the quest for that solution into a page-turner. Ecstatically playful, Radiant Cool breaks new ground in the genre of philosophical fiction. --Rebecca Goldstein, author of The Mind-Body Problem

A deft and engrossing noir mystery. Daniel C. Dennett TLS ... [A] book that is both a gripping story and an intellectual challenge. Susan Blackmore NewScientist As Lloyd's final pages make clear, consciousness may in principle by partly opaque. George Scialabba Boston Sunday Globe Radiant Cool is likely to become a campus classic. Durrants ... ingenious and compelling. Jonathan Derbyshire Time Out London Other writers...have used literature to illuminate science. Lloyd...[has] done it the other way round. Walter Ellis Times Higher Education Supplement ...A fine read for anyone interested in consciousness studies as well as fictionalized science. Jaak Panksepp JAMA ...[A] book that is both a gripping story and an intellectual challenge. Susan Blackmore NewScientist As Lloyd's final pages make clear, consciousness may in principle by partly opaque. George Scialabba Boston Sunday Globe Other writers, including Umberto Eco, have used literature to illuminate science. Lloyd...[has] done it the other way round. Walter Ellis Times Higher Education Supplement

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Dan Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Connecticut, and winner of the first New Perspectives in Functional Brain Imaging Research award, given by the Functional MRI Data Center and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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