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Andrew May is a former scientist with an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD in Astrophysics from Manchester University. After a thirty year career spanning the academic, government and private sectors, he has now settled in the South-West of England where he works as a freelance writer and consultant on subjects as diverse as defence technology, history, physics, Forteana and New Age beliefs.

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The Moon and me

As you’ll see in a moment, I’ve been fascinated by the Moon since childhood, but the picture above shows some of my more recent writings on the subject. There’s my book The Telescopic Tourist’s Guide to the Moon, written in 2017 for the Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series from Springer. A couple of years later, my very first contribution to How It Works magazine was an 8-page feature “Sci

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	Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe 3.92 avg rating — 325 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Destination Mars: The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet 4.05 avg rating — 171 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets 3.91 avg rating — 76 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Space Business: From Hotels in Orbit to Mining the Moon – How Private Enterprise is Transforming Space 3.82 avg rating — 76 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fake Physics: Spoofs, Hoaxes and Fictitious Science 3.35 avg rating — 57 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of Music: How Technology has Shaped the Evolution of an Artform 3.49 avg rating — 47 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rockets and Ray Guns: The Sci-Fi Science of the Cold War 3.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eyes in the Sky: Space Telescopes from Hubble to Webb by Andrew May (Goodreads Author), Brian Clegg (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pseudoscience and Science Fiction 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conspiracy History: A History of the World for Conspiracy Theorists by Andrew May (Goodreads Author), Nick Redfern (Preface) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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