Posted on 08/19/2007 12:16:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis
It’s a little early for Christmas shopping, but I’ve found the perfect gift for any bright child or grandchild who has the slightest stirring of curiosity about the stars and space. It’s “Space And Astronomy: Decade by Decade” by Marianne J. Dyson (Facts On File, 284 pages, $49.50).
Marianne Dyson was a NASA flight controller before she started writing prize-winning books about science for young readers. Her book, “Space Station Science,” won the Golden Kite Award; “Home On The Moon” won the American Institute of Physics Writing Award. She’s also a popular lecturer and technical editor and science consultant for several reference book publishers.
“Space And Astronomy” is nothing less than a very readable, very informative, and very enjoyable history of what has been accomplished in studies of space and astronomy in the 20th century. That’s an enormous subject, but Dyson deftly breaks it up into easily understandable bites.
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Ben Bova is an interesting knowledgeable fellow who is both a literary agent and an accomplished author. I’d take his advice seriously.
He is my favorite SciFi author.. Have you read some of his books???
I don’t read Sci-Fi but enjoyed a nonfiction book he did on light.
I’m afraid Ben is a lib, but he does use his head for something besides a hat rack. Thanks for posting this article, I’ve just bought several books by the author he was reviewing, including the specific book he reviewed, for my classroom. I’m trying a space theme. I love Amazon! And SPACE!
He maybe a lib. But in his books, he has the private industry doing the advances of space travel. Also in the Exile Trilogy book, he slams a World Government.
“But in his books, he has the private industry doing the advances of space travel.”
Which is why I said he uses his head for something besides a hat rack. Lib or not, he’s actually thought about how to make space travel work. He’s not my favorite author, but he’s readable. I think he’s grown up a bit, too, as once upon a time, he, like Heinlein, thought world government would be a good thing. Slower than Heinlein was, maybe, but he got there.
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