Mark Mortimer
Book Review: Saturn – A New View
I love large format picture books. Most any subject suffices, as the photographs are like little works of art, each…
Book Review: Science, Society, and the Search for Life in the Universe
Where is our search for life taking us? Or, even simpler, why are we searching? Bruce Jakosky in his book…
Book Review: Pocket Space Guides
Apogee space books has published four more Pocket Space Guides. These small format books are each about half text and…
Book Review: Apollo – The Definitive Sourcebook
Our Moon has been visited by men, yet this fact may seem like fiction to many people. Over an incredibly…
Book Review: Team Moon
The Moon has always held a fascinating role in our existence. Visiting it was surely the most amazing feat we've…
Best Space Books of 2006
The Earth has almost returned to its same relative location about our Sun as when I last prepared a summary…
Book Review: In Search of Dark Matter
I'm continually amazed at the abilities of our species. Foremost amongst our talents is deduction. Using logic and reasoning, a…
Book Review: Space Race
History isn't the recitation of facts and dates. It's about bringing to life the spirit and passion of those who've…
The Last of the Great Observatories
The Spitzer telescope targets the infrared portion of the light spectrum. It also happens to have been one of the…
The Quantum Zoo – A Tourist’s Guide to the Neverending Universe
Modern physics! Who knows where it's going? Objects so small that we can never see them. Strings that vibrate with…