It's like being back at school - I've won an essay prize! From UCRiverside for my New Scientist piece on mortality, more here. 

The mighty Maria Popova of Brainpickings engages with my Mortality Paradox here.

You can find out in my feature for Skeptic here, or my interview for iScience here.

I've been on BBC World Service and US public radio talking about why socialist leaders have a penchant for being pickled post-mortem, eg here.

The paperback edition of Immortality is now available in the UK, eg here or here.

Immortality is one of the Daily Beast's favourite books of the year: "a fascinating history of man’s greatest obsession" - here (p.4).

500 years after the first ever translation of a work into Estonian, I'm proud to say Immortality will be joining this select group.

On 1 Jan, I was on DW TV's Agenda talking about New Year's resolutions, mortality and eternity (here). Happy New Year to all!

... for a second time. Here for German speakers. 

The "Christ & Welt" supplement of German weekly Die Zeit have an interview with me in time for Christmas. (Not online, but overview can be seen here, in German).

I'm not very up-beat about cryonics in my book, but the cryonics movement magazine nonetheless generously reviews Immortality in their latest edition, here.

For Spanish speakers: my interview with Semana magazine in Colombia here.

Immortality has been chosen as one of the "10 best popular science books of 2012" by the New Scientist - and a copy can be won here.

Immortality nicely reviewed in The Weekly Standard (Dec 3 2012). "Cave fashions a plausible and compelling view of a life that does not recoil in horror at the thought of mortality" - online here. 

Immortality is given a fine review in the November/December 2012 edition of The Humanist magazine - online here. 

Immortality generously reviewed in Die Welt - "Cave dissects humanity’s ‘immortality narratives’ with humour and cool-headed expertise." (Here in German). 

My interview with the excellent Maureen Fiedler can be heard around the US from 22 June on 60 NPR stations or online here. 

A very fine piece on Immortality by the novelist Paul Di Filippo here. 

You can find out, if you can read the Greek alphabet, by reading this interview with me in the Sunday magazine of Greek's leading newspaper To Vima - online here.

On Saturday, 2 June, I spoke at the excellent HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay. You can see my talk here. 

Bulgarian speakers can read my interview with leading news station Darik here.

On Sunday, 3 June, I talked about immortality on BBC Radio Ulster. It can be heard here for one week only, from 1:17 to 1:22.

On Saturday, 2 June, I debated our eternal prospects with Rev. Roger Harper on the atheist vs believer radio show "Unbelievable". You can hear it here. 

On Wednesday, 30 May, I debated immortality with the excellent Prof. John Gray at the LSE in London. You can hear it here.

I spoke about immortality with Ireland's national Newstalk radio. It can be heard here by selecting the Moncrieff show, Friday 4th May, part 3, after the news.

"A must-read exploration of what spurs human ingenuity" - more here.

Immortality (bzw. "Unsterblich") wurde in der Süddeutsche Zeitung am 21. April rezensiert (leider online nur hinter einem Paywall). "Es ist ein Rundgang von verführerischer Farbenpracht, zu dem Cave von Echnaton über Dante bis Borges kenntnisreich, süffig und mit vielen erzählerischen Elementen anleitet."

On 23 April, I talked about immortality on BBC Radio 3's Night Wave programme with Aubrey de Grey and Elaine Storkey (from 12.21 mins onwards here).

Early risers in the UK might have heard me discussing immortality on Radio 4 on Easter Sunday morning. Others can listen again here (from 0:31:10).

"An epic inquiry into the human desire to defy death" - more here.

Available from all good booksellers - and hopefully the others too!

Arch-sceptic Michael Shermer dedicates his monthly column in the April 2012 edition of Scientific American to discussion of Immortality - here. 

Eine sehr schöne Kritik (mit Interview) von Unsterblich im Deutschlandradio Kultur (gesendet am Samstag, den 24. März) - hier zum Nachlesen oder -hören.
(A review of Immortality in German radio).

Forbes has kindly described me as "one of the most interesting book reviewers of 2011" here.

Die deutsche Vorstellung von Unsterblich findet am Mittwoch, den 21. März um 19.30 Uhr in der Urania, Berlin statt. Mehr Info hier.
The German edition of Immortality will be launched on Wednesday, 21 March at 19.30 in the Urania, Berlin. More information here.

The strategies humans have invented to outwit the Reaper - feature in the March/April edition of The New Humanist magazine. (Here).

Religion may have lost much of its power to explain our modern world but we still crave its emotional satisfactions - books essay in the Financial Times (19 Jan 2012)

Unsterblich: Die Sehnsucht nach dem ewigen Leben als Triebkraft unsere Zivilisation - die deutsche Fassung meines Buches kann ab jetzt bestellt werden! Hier.

At 16:00 on Thursday, 10 May 2012, Stephen will be giving a talk on the theme ‘Deadly Elixir: Science and the Promise of Immortality’ in Heidelberg. The talk is part of the Science and Society series run by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Read more here.

The November edition of Discovery Channel Magazine has an interview with me on the 'longevity funk' as part of a nice piece on immortality (alas not available online).