David H. Levy is a contributing editor of Parade magazine and has discovered twenty-one comets, including Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided with Jupiter. He is the author of nineteen books, including Skywatching, hundreds of articles, and a number of screenplays, all on aspects of astronomy. He lives in Vail, Arizona
James V. Scotti Spacewatch Project, University of Arizona David
Levy's wonderful tale brings the spectacular beauty and terrifying
danger of comets, both literally and figuratively, down to
Earth.
Walter Anderson Editor-in-Chief, Parade magazine There's so much in
these scientifically rich yet fast-moving pages that I have a new
awareness of the history and vitality of those wonderful astral
phenomena.
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