Book Log 2009 #1: Sun in a Bottle by Charles Seife

This chronicle of the quest to harness nuclear fusion for energy does an admirable job in both giving the history of man-made fusion - starting with the hydrogren bomb and going through recent "discoveries" like cold fusion and bubble fusion - and in talking about the science in a way that's both understandable and reasonably technical.

That being said, I did want a little bit more about hot fusion, tokamaks, etc. and perhaps less on cold and bubble fusions, even though both help to illustrate his point that a future with cheap, abundant and clean fusion energy is wishful thinking. Still, it's worth a look if this sort of thing interests you.