The Universe: the first 15 billion years in 15 minutes; getting around the sky; here comes the sun; meet the moon; down to earth; Mercury and Venus - frantic speed, fatal beauty; Mars - the red planet; Jupiter - king of the planets; Saturn - the ringed planet; Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - the newcomers; comets, asteroids and meteors; stars and their lives; the Milky Way and other galaxies; our strange universe. Star charts: star charts and how to read them; northern hemisphere chart; southern hemisphere chart; Andromeda - Virgo.
John Scalzi is a freelance writer whose fascination with science and astronomy goes back to his childhood, and is a firm believer that people enjoy reading about science when it is presented to them as something that is fun as well as factual.
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