Surendra Verma

This article is about the Indian-Australian science writer. For the Hindi playwright, see Surendra Verma.
Surendra Verma (born 1942) is an Indian-Australian journalist and writer of science books for a popular audience.

Verma was born in India in 1942. He has been working in Melbourne, Australia since 1970.

Verma has written a number of book which explain scientific topics to a general audience. Verma's books have received positive reviews, and have been published in Australia, UK, US and India and have been translated into 12 languages.

• The Tunguska Fireball: Solving One of the Greatest Mysteries of the 20th Century (Icon Books, UK; 2005) ISBN 978-1-84046-620-1
• Why Aren't They Here?: The Questions of Life on Other Worlds (Icon Books, UK; 2007)ISBN 9781840468069
• The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow: Beginnings, Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science (Icon Books, UK, 2007)ISBN 9781840468311
• The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories & Things (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2005) ISBN 9781877069208
• The Little Book of Maths Theorems, Theories & Things (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2008)ISBN 9781741106718
• The Little Book of Unscientific Proportions, Theories & Things (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2011)ISBN 9781742570778
• The Little Book of the Mind: How We Think and Why We Think (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2012)ISBN 9781742572130 + a children's book
• Who Killed T. Rex: Uncover the mystery of the vanished dinosaurs (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2010)ISBN 9781741108248
• Learn & Unlearn: The novel way to rethink the things that matter in life (New Holland Publishers, Australia; 2015)ISBN 9781742575964.
• Little-Big Book of Science in 100 Words (Orient Publishing, India; 2015) ISBN 9788122205923

• "Peer review: The Tunguska Fireball by Surendra Verma". The Guardian, Tim Radford, 24 February 2005
• "The Tunguska Fireball". The Naked Scientist
• "Review: The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow by Surendra Verma". Beard, Jonathan, August 2007 New Scientist , Vol. 195 Issue 2616, p50
• "New Arrivals". The Hindu, 30 August 2011.
• "The Little Book of Unscientific Propositions, Theories & Things". Book Review by Rama Gaind]. PS News.
• "The Little Book of the Mind: How we think and why we think". Samara Magazine. Desolie Page.