What a Wonderful World (41 page)
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Authors: Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine
New Scientist.
He is the author of the bestselling
We Need to Talk about Kelvin, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, The Never Ending Days of Being Dead
and
The Magic Furnace.
He also wrote
The Solar System,
the bestselling app for iPad, which won the Future Book Award 2011.
Tweeting the Universe
Solar System
Afterglow of Creation
We Need to Talk About Kelvin
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You
The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead
The Magic Furnace
The Universe Next Door
FOR CHILDREN
Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil
APPS
Solar System for iPad
First published in 2013
by Faber and Faber Ltd
Bloomsbury House
74–77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2013
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ISBN 978–0–571–27842–8