[1] His book Acquainted with the Night, an investigation into darkness was nominated for both the Charles Taylor Prize and the Governor General's Award.
In 2002 he published The Natural History, a book-length poem which brings together and interprets several scientific disciplines.
"[10] In his 1986 book, The Immaculate Perception, Dewdney describes nature as "divine technology," and language as a "cognitive prosthesis".
In this same book he refers to language as an "organically derived software downloaded into a child's mind at an early age".
His two subsequent non-fiction books, The Secular Grail and Last Flesh, deal with consciousness, media and a possible future evolution of humans.