REVIEWS OF Afterglow of
Creation
In the
UK…
"The wonderful intro alone is worth the cover
price. Witty and accessible science"
Scott Pack, former
chief buyer, Waterstone’s
"A 'science for dummies' take
on creation."
The Times (16
January 2010)
"A very good piece of storytelling... Chown
writes as if he were addressing his fellow human beings."
New Scientist
"Practically perfect."
The Good Book Guide
"A book I'd recommend to my mother! An an excellent overview of the whole story, written in an exciting
way, while being pretty fair on all the main players, and presented at an
accessible level."
"Chown superbly captures the spirit of scientific
endeavour... The story is told with panache and the science is so well
explained it makes and effortless read. Afterglow of Creation is upbeat, witty
and informed."
The Sunday Times
"An excellent introduction to the most recent
developments in cosmology... he carefully explains intricacies in which other writers
would have been bogged down."
The Observer
"The thrilling story of the search and study of
the heat created when the Universe was born... This is what Big Science is
really like."
The Daily Telegraph
"Chown's book could reach people who have never
know nor cared about the origins of the cosmos."
Association of
British Science Writers
"The secret of the universe in 170
pages!"
Focus
"My favourite book."
Yehudi Menuhin,
Vilonist
In
Australia…
"Beautiful science, beautifully told."
The Australian
In the
US…
"It's a long time since this reviewer has read a
popular science book that so accurately communicates the science involved while
maintaining the reader's interest through the beauty of the written
word...Afterglow excels at portraying science as a human endeavour where
personalities, ideas, egos, politics and money all mix in the endeavour we know
asastronomy... This book should be in every middle school, high school and
public library and on the shelves of anyone interested in either astronomy or
the nature of science. It is a wonderful story, brilliantly told."
The Science Teacher
"Chown writes in a deceptively breezy style that
conceals his impressive understanding of astrophysics and cosmology... This is
science as it really happened, not the dry-bones account of how it was supposed
to happen found in textbooks. All in all, Afterglow of Creation is a wonderful
read for college and high school students, and also for well-educated adults,
who may find it sparks an interest they did not realise they possessed.
Science Books and
Films
"A lucid account of the key developments
in modern cosmology, especially good in capturing the human dimension of
scientific work."
KirkusReviews
"Very readable, even somewhat breezy... could
serve as a novice introduction to a complex subject."
Library Journal
"Afterglow of Creation is an entertaining read. I
can recommend it to lay people, but those who will gain most from it are
scientists in other fields curious about the recent huge strides in
cosmology."
Meteoritics and
Planetary Science
"Books like Afterglow of Creation keep the story
of the universe and the hard work of human discovery alive."
Astronomy
"An extremely entertaining narrative of
the birth of cosmology."
American Scientist