[Sailor Steve]

I finished the African history book, and it was pretty informative about the early empires of West Africa.

Now I'm into To Utopia And Back: The Search For Life In The Solar System, by Norman H. Horowitz. Horowitz was chief of the bioscience department for the Mariner and Viking Mars Missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboaratory in Pasadena, California. Published in 1986, the book starts by explaining how scientists classify life, including how DNA and RNA are constructed, then goes on to a history of research into how life works, follows with a history of speculation and research about Mars, and finishes with the story of the missions themselves and what they mean. All of this in language that an idiot like me can understand.

I barely started it today, but it's looking like a good one.