Table of Contents

Brooklyn; Chicago; The Dungeon; High Ground; California; Harvard; Mars and Manna; Mr. X; Gods Like Men; The Shadow Line; The Dragons of Eden; Annie; Cosmos; Contact; The Value of L; Look Back, Look Back; Hollywood; The Night Freight; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

KEAY DAVIDSON is the science writer for the San Francisco Examiner. He has won the two top awards in American science journalism: the American Association for the Advancement of Science-Westinghouse Prize and the National Association of Science Writers' Science in Society award. His articles have appeared in many magazines, including National Geographic, New Scientist, Sky & Telescope, and Mother Jones, and his books include the internationally acclaimed Wrinkles in Time (with George Smoot). He is a major contributor of biographical essays on scientists and scholars to Oxford University Press's multi-volume American National Biography.

Reviews

"Davidson writes superbly, and this biography is extremely hard to put down. Seventy pages of notes, a detailed biography, and a thorough index also makes this book an extremely useful guide to the history of space science." (The Observatory, August 2000)

."..an extremely useful guide to the history of space science." (The Observatory, August 2000)