<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Mason Inman <<a href="mailto:masoninman@gmail.com">masoninman@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 18 April 2016 at 12:10:56 PM AEST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:antonybbarry@me.com">antonybbarry@me.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>"The Oracle of Oil," first biography of M. King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil"</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dear Mr. Barry,</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Given your involvement with ACT Peak Oil, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">I thought you might like to read my new book, just released by W.W. Norton, </span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.oracleofoil.com/order-outside-us.html" target="_blank" style="font-style:italic">The Oracle of Oil</a><i>: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future.</i></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i><br></i></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">It's the first biography of M. King Hubbert, the "father of peak oil," covering his whole body of work but focused primarily on his peak oil predictions and his wider ideas about energy and society, and limits to growth.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Last week the book received very positive reviews in both <i>Science</i> and <i>Nature </i>(see below). </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Those reviews, along with others' comments on the book and links to sites where you can buy the book, are </span><a href="http://www.oracleofoil.com/order-outside-us.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">on my website</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. In Australia it's available through <a href="http://www.booktopia.com.au/the-oracle-of-oil-mason-inman/prod9780393239683.html" target="_blank"><span class="">Booktopia</span></a>, and possibly other retailers.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">For </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">a</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">sense</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">of what the book is like, you can read an excerpt at </span><i style="font-size:12.8px">Scientific American</i><span style="font-size:12.8px">: </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-prophet-of-peak-oil-explained-fracking-in-the-1950s-excerpt/" target="_blank">How the Prophet of Peak Oil Explained Fracking in the 1950s</a>"</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If the book looks of interest, perhaps you could share the information with the ACT Peak Oil list as well.</span></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,<br>Mason Inman</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><i style="font-size:12.8px">Science:</i><span style="font-size:12.8px"> "</span><i style="font-size:12.8px">The Oracle of Oil</i><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is a masterful telling of Hubbert’s life and ideas, written by journalist Mason Inman, a knowledgeable and graceful storyteller."</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-style:italic">Nature: </span>"In Hubbert’s story, Inman has found a meditation on the booms and busts that marked twentieth-century economic growth.... In writing the first biography of Hubbert, Inman has retrieved, if not rescued, the story of a scientist who has much to offer to today’s energy conundrum."</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><div>Mason Inman, science writer</div><div><br></div><div>author of The Oracle of Oil</div><div>forthcoming from W. W. Norton, April 2016</div><div><a href="http://www.oracleofoil.com/" target="_blank">http://www.oracleofoil.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Twitter & Skype: masoninman</div><div>M: <a href="tel:%2B1-916-527-4014" value="+19165274014" target="_blank">+1-916-527-4014</a>, O: <a href="tel:%2B1-415-508-4493" value="+14155084493" target="_blank">+1-415-508-4493</a></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><></div></div></div></div></div>
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