If you have spent some time on Youtube, you have watched at least one beautifully produced Kurzgesagt (@Kurz_Gesagt), German for in a Nutshell, video. Youtube is packed with science communicators, but the beauty and humor of Kurzgesagt videos is hard to beat.

In 2021, Philip Dettmer released Immune. After more than a decade of interest in the topic, he released it in the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic; he has shockingly good timing.

The Immune audiobook is narrated by Steve Taylor, but the beautiful illustrations in the book should make you want to reach for a ebook or even a hardcover.

Immune's extended metaphors and allegories help even the least scientifically trained folks like myself to start to grasp a shockingly complex topic, which is something that I should have expected.

I also should have expected the "in a nutshell" guy to write "in a nutshell" a lot. The Google ebook preview shows that Immune says "in a nutshell" 34 times. It felt like I heard it about once every 5 minutes in the audiobook.

Immune is a fantastic read.