Guest blog for Mich. bookstore Schuler Books
A guest blog about The Day the World Discovered the Sun for indie bookstore Schuler Books
Here is where the book’s action lies: The intersection of science, technology and geopolitics. Animated by some phenomenal characters, motivated by both the brain and the gut — how to understand our universe? how to save untold thousands of lives by mastering the “haven-finding art”? how, astronomers wondered, to rescue our profession?!! Then add to that an obstacle course of some of the greatest perils of a candlelit age: sailing through polar ice storms and carting through arctic wastelands, journeying across vast stretches of uncharted ocean, discovering remote new civilizations, braving New World epidemics that threatened to ruin a Venus transit mission’s purpose and kill everyone on that mission to boot.
There, in essence, is the material for a good page-turner. That’s what I set out to write.
