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Parallel Worlds was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in the UK.
This overstates the book’s award status. The official Baillie Gifford/Samuel Johnson Prize records list Parallel Worlds on the 2005 longlist, not the shortlist/finalists.
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The claim says Parallel Worlds was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize. But the prize’s official archive for 2005 separates books into shortlist and longlist, and it places Parallel Worlds on the longlist only. On the official year-by-year 2005 page, the shortlist contains five different books, while Parallel Worlds appears under the longlist. A separate official books-and-authors page also labels Parallel Worlds as “Longlist 2005”. That means the article is overstating the accolade by calling it a finalist.
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- 2005 The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction | Baillie Gifford Prize
The shortlist ... 2005 Stuart A Life Backwards ... 2005 MaximumCity ... 2005 Istanbul ... 2005 Matisse the Master ... 2005 The Italian Boy ... The longlist ... 2005 Parallel Worlds Michio Kaku ...
- Books & authors | Baillie Gifford Prize
Showing 289–300 of 372 books ... Longlist 2005 Parallel Worlds Michio Kaku ...
- Samuel Johnson longlist celebrates variety | The Guardian
the 20-strong longlist for the 2005 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction ... fellow science writer Michio Kaku, whose book Parallel Worlds explores the notion that we may one day be able to use black holes as gateways to other universes.