![]() ![]() “It’s the hottest art form around, and not to know something about it is to ignore the foremost endeavor of our time.” The author, who began his writing career in journalism and now teaches at UC Berkeley, has received the American Institute of Physics Prize, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s prize for lifetime achievement, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for his popularizations of esoteric science. ![]() Especially considering that Ferris has achieved his grasp of astronomy and physics with virtually no formal education in the fields. That his subsequent books on astronomy-”The Red Limit,” “Galaxies,” “Space Shot” and now “Coming of Age in the Milky Way”-have been praised by scientists as well as book critics should be encouraging to those who still find the Big Bang, black holes, quarks and quantum physics to be over our heads. So Ferris took a stab at writing about real stars. But rock stars were never as intriguing to him as the celestial bodies overhead. Fifteen years ago Timothy Ferris earned his living pontificating on the dubious aesthetics of bands such as Grand Funk Railroad. ![]()
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