"Sobel is a most original writer, with a reverence for history and storytelling."
— USA Today
The sun's family of planets become a familiar place in The Planets, a personal account of the lives of other worlds due to be published on October 11th. Sobel explores the planets' origins and oddities through the lens of popular culture, from astrology, mythology, and science fiction to art, music, poetry, biography, and history.
Dava Sobel is an award-winning writer and former New York Times science reporter who has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker. She has also been a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, writing about scientific research and the history of science.
She is the author of the best-selling Longitude and the award-winning Galileo's Daughter, and edited the compendium The Best American Science Writing 2004. In 2001 she received both the National Science Board's Public Service Award and the Bradford Washburn Award from the Museum of Science in Boston.
A book signing will immediately follow the talk.
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