Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten," notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her introduction to <i>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016</i>. "But at the end of the day, we're all writers . . . We're here to play for the folks." The writers in this anthology brought us the year's highest notes in the genre. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning essay on the earthquake that could decimate the Pacific Northwest to the astonishing work of investigative journalism that transformed the nail salon industry, this is a collection of hard-hitting and beautifully composed writing on the wonders, dangers, and oddities of scientific innovation and our natural world. <p/><i>The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016</i> includes Kathryn Schulz, Sarah Maslin Nir, Charles C. Mann, Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Gretel Ehrlich, and others <p/>Amy Stewart, guest editor, is the award-winning author of seven books, including her acclaimed Kopp Sisters novels and the bestsellers <i>The Drunken Botanist</i> and <i>Wicked Plants. </i>She and her husband live in Eureka, California, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books. <p/>Tim Folger, series editor, is a contributing editor at <i>Discover</i> and writes about science for several magazines. He lives in Gallup, New Mexico. <br>
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