Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and bestselling author Natalie Angier, The Best American Science Writing 2009 is distinguished by new and impressive voices as well as some of the foremost names in science writing. Among them is NASW member J. Madeleine Nash, former TIME magazine senior science correspondent now a freelance writer, for "Back to the Future" (High Country News, Oct. 13, 2008). This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of where science has taken us — and where it is headed.