The Echoing Universe

“OK – I’m biased; I’ve spent my career as a radio astronomer, but I wish I had had Emma’s book to accompany me on that journey. It would have been even more fun. What a romp! Starting with the introduction that takes us from the hospital where X-rays expose broken bones, to the hardware store where visible light overwhelms our senses choosing paint colors for the kitchen, through the infrared whose over-exposure sunburns our bodies, then to microwaves that jiggle the water molecules in our food enough to reheat dinner, and finally to radio waves that you cannot personally sense without a receiver and an electronic amplifier, but which let us explore the distant hearts of galaxies and quasars; the joy and energy with which this text is written are sure to generate an inspired crop of future scientific explorers who relish in the ability to observe day or night, rain or shine.”

“A sparklingly eloquent tour of the universe, where you too will fall in love with the oft-neglected but nevertheless remarkable radio visions of our cosmos.”