Full name: First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe

Author: Richard Preston Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Astronomy, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780812991857 0812991850

Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthest edges of space through the Hale Telescope, attempting to solve the riddle of the creation of the universe.Richard Preston's name became a household word with The Hot Zone, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in hardcover, was on The New York Times's bestseller list for 42 weeks, and was the subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles. Preston has become a sought-after commentator on popular science subjects.For this hardcover reprint of what has been called "the best popular account of astronomy in action," (Kirkus Reviews) he has revised the text and written a new introduction. Similar books: Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox The Red Limit by Timothy Ferris Bang! by Brian May Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye The Alchemy of the Heavens by Ken Croswell The Collapsing Universe by Isaac Asimov Comet by Carl Sagan The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan Strange New Worlds by Ray Jayawardhana Asimov On Astronomy by Isaac Asimov Origins by Neil deGrasse Tyson 365 Starry Nights by Chet Raymo Intelligent Life in the Universe by I. S. Shklovskii Bad Astronomy by Philip Plait Afterglow of Creation by Marcus Chown