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..
A deft and engrossing noir mystery.
Daniel C. Dennett
TLS
[A] book that is both a gripping story and an intellectual challenge.
Susan Blackmore
New Scientist
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
omehow 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 newgenre, the neuroscience novel of consciousness.
Daniel Dennett, author of Brainchildren, Conciousness Explained, and Freedom Evolves.
... 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
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
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
