Book description
At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the
sun revolved around the earth. Yet some men knew that the heavens did
not move as they should. And some men began to suspect that this
heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe convulsed in conflict between
Catholic and Protestant, these men prepared to die for that truth.
This is the story of Kepler and Galileo, two men whose struggle with
themselves, with the evidence and with the forces of reaction changed
not simply themselves but our world. The Sky's Dark Labyrinth is the
first of a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles,
personal and professional, and key historical events in man's quest to
understand the Universe.
Stuart Clark is a former editor of the UK's bestselling popular
astronomy magazine Astronomy Now and a visiting fellow of the University
of Hertfordshire. His book, The Sun Kings (Princeton University Press,
2007), established him as a popular science writer par excellence. Last
year Stuart further honed his storytelling skills by working for the BBC
to develop ten stories for a forthcoming science-based drama series,
Stormshield, and writing the outline for the astronomy episode of a
forthcoming BBC2 series on the history of science. Most recently, he has
dramatised and read a portion of The Sun Kings for Radio 3.
