The Curious Inheritance
The fears we're handed, and the curiosity that frees us
The unlucky hour. The horoscope that seems to know you better than you know yourself. The lemon crushed under a new car, just in case. You've never really believed any of it, and you've never quite stopped doing it either. The Curious Inheritance is about where these inherited fears come from, and what they quietly cost us. You won't be asked to give anything up, only to ask one question, the way a curious child asks it: Why?
How we came to understand the universe
Nine books, each standing alone, read in any order.
Aaqhil Hussain is a network engineer in Melbourne, helping organisations stay connected, who writes about the universe in his spare hours. His evenings, more often than not, go to working out how to explain a star, or why time only runs one way, in language a curious fourteen-year-old could follow. Away from the keyboard he is a photographer, a motorcycle rider, and father to Alia, his seven-year-old daughter, to whom every one of his books is dedicated.
Curiosity is the thread through all of it. Across a nine-book series on how we came to understand the cosmos, and a standalone book on the fears we inherit, he keeps returning to the same small, stubborn question: why? He believes wonder is the best thing we can hand to the people who come after us, and every book is an attempt to pass a little of it on. He lives in Melbourne with his family and two cats named after physicists.