Bob Berman is a leading astronomy writer and the author of Zapped, Zoom and The Sun’s Heartbeat. He contributed the popular ‘Night Watchman’ column for Discover for seventeen years and is currently a columnist for Astronomy, a host on Northeast Public Radio and science editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. He lives in Willow, New York.

‘Blithely engaging, a glittering planetarium that is…a stage for astonishing and unnerving spectacles… I greatly admire [Berman’s] ability to lucidly explain astrophysics to the nonscientist. The brio that he brings to cosmic havoc makes much of Boom! a delicious guilty pleasure.’