Science books for a 13 year old please

[MerylSqueak]

My son's birthday is coming up and he's asked for more science books.

He's read the DK The Science Book and the Natural History Museum Why is Snot Green type books. He won't want anymore kiddish books. I got him the Absurd Scientific Advice book which he likes but he was put off at first by it's cartoons style.

He spends a lot of time on science podcasts and at the moment his dream job is terrafoming Mars and he's really into physics and space at the moment. He also used to be really into ecosystems but found it very upsetting thinking about climate change ( hence the interest in leaving this planet stuff I suppose) .

I'm wondering about John Gribbin's book on the development of quantum physics, or The Science of Everyday life but I'm not sure. He's bright and keen but not very bookish and I don't want to put him off.

Thank you. He would like both of those too. I think this list is going to keep me going for a few birthdays. I'm delighted!

Also this is completely off topic but I picked up on your comment about him getting upset about climate change - my son was super anxious about this after a bad run of newsround programmes at school. I reminded him that there are people whose whole job it is to try and fix this stuff - like me! And we are beavering away trying to make sure we solve it, like we managed to do with CFCs and the ozone layer. We're seeing technical breakthroughs every day and I work on the money side getting the money to invest in those technologies. It is definitely an emergency but there is also plenty of cool stuff happening to help!

Neil deGrasse Tyson has written some books, he's not just a physicist but a science communicator so they are written for a general audience.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Neil-deGrasse-Tyson/s?rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3ANeil+deGrasse+Tyson

Thank you for both those suggestions. I want to get him everything!

I have tried to get him involved with people coming up with solutions, for example through looking at the Earthshot prize but the Attenborough programmes we watched a lot when he was little have really got to him with their last sections about climate change. It got to the point that he could spot which animal it would be when, 'the talk' was coming and look at me distraught, saying, 'Please tell me it's not the last one Mummy! Please tell me there are more' Poor little chap.