About the Author

Piers Bizony has written about science, aerospace and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the United Kingdom and the United States.His previous books include 2001: Filming the Future, The "Rivers" of "Mars" (shortlisted for the NASA/Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Writing), Starman" (a biography of Yuri Gargarin) and Space: 50," a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and HarperCollins, marking the 50th anniversary of Sputnik.His latest project, Atom," is linked with a major BBC TV series on the discovery of quantum physics.