'Tyson has become the most influential science communicator in the country.' - VOX


'Tyson has created a space-age Merlin. An astrophysicist and educator, Tyson weaves together imaginative with straightforward science.' - USA Today

'Tyson is a master of streamlining and simplification ... taking mind-bogglingly complex ideas, stripping them down to their nuts and bolts, padding them with colorful allegories and dorky jokes, and making them accessible to the layperson.' - Salon

'We all have some questions we'd like to ask about astronomy. Well, here they are - and the answers too, short, straightforward, light-hearted, and correct.' - Isaac Asimov, on the original publication of companion volume Merlin's Tour of the Universe