Caleb Scharf is the award-winning author of The Copernicus Complex and Gravity's Engines, and the director of the Columbia Astrobiology Centre. He has written for The New Yorker and Nature, among other publications. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters. Ron Miller is a Hugo Award-winning illustrator and author whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, the international bestselling app Journey to the Exoplanets, the definitive editions of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, and many other books. He served as the art director for the National Air and Space Museum's Albert Einstein Planetarium. He lives in Virginia.
'[A] tantalising approach to the mysteries of the universe' Independent on The Copernicus Complex '[A] witty, adroitly marshalled treatise on human significance' Observer on The Copernicus Complex 'The Copernicus Complex delivers its argument with comparable clarity, insight and humour... compelling' Telegraph on The Copernicus Complex Scharf makes vivid the mind-boggling nature of the universe ... [there are] bright beams of knowledge coming from this excellent book Wall Street Journal on Gravity's Engines 'This is a book that is rich in the poetry of scientific language ... [N]ot only does [Scharf] know more about the universe than you or I do, he knows how to transmit his knowledge by deft use of analogy' Guardian on Gravity's Engines