Book description
Marcus Chown's highly accessible exploration of reality, the nature
of the universe, and the place of life within it. Starting with the
questions being asked by the world's most daring and imaginative
scientists, he takes us to the frontier of science and reveals that
the mysteries being examined there are those that matter most to all
of us: could we live for ever? where did we come from? and what the
hell are we doing here?
Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster.
Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant of the weekly science
magazine New Scientist. Marcus's first popular science book, Afterglow
of Creation - runner-up for the prestigious Rhône-Poulenc Prize - was
published to much acclaim in 1994. The Magic Furnace, Marcus's second
book, was published in Britain in 1999. In Japan it was chosen as one
of the Books of the Year by Asahi Shimbun, the world's biggest
newspaper and, in the UK, the Daily Mail called it 'a dizzy
page-turner with all the narrative devices you'd expect to find in
Harry Potter.' His third book, The Universe Next Door, was published
in 2002. 'An exuberant book - a parallel universe where science is
actually fun,' wrote the Independent. Marcus lives in London with his
wife, Karen.
