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There's a question on JREF forum about whether BA's book tour will be bringing him to Oz.
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Six 5-star reviews. Two more 4-star.

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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,119 in Books

#2 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#2 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#5 in Books > Science > Physics
Amazon: The most popular items in Astrophysics & Space Science

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1. Icarus at the Edge of Time
by Brian Greene (Author) [worthy competition]

2. Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .
by Ph.D., Philip Plait (Author) [our hero, but a weird attribution]

3. Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
by Richard C. Hoagland (Author), Mike Bara (Author) [just plain weird]

4. The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen William Hawking (Author) [worthy competition]

5. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene (Author) [2 out of 5; hogging the shelf]
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The universe is trying to kill us. In Death From the Skies! our own Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, counts the ways the world will end. Start worrying in a few million years about a cosmic dust collision, when the sun hits the closest spiral arm of our galaxy. Take your chances with an exploding star. Or manage to escape these threats, and you just get an extra 1035 years before all matter decays anyway.
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Phil Plait was interviewed by the local (Atlanta) public radio station, hawking his book. Good to see the locals take an interest in such things.
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