Cosmos: Possible Worlds

I watched the Fox/NatGeo series first before reading this book, but the series follows the book very closely (although the chapters/episodes are in a slightly different order). Anyone who is a fan of the original Cosmos series or of Carl Sagan should read this. Not only is it a love letter to Carl, but also a challenge to the anti-intellectual movement that has gathered so much steam in recent years. Science and technology can either save us or destroy us - it is up to We The People to decide our fate.

This was a great companion to the new series, with more detail than you obviously are going to get in a 45 minute episode, but still similar to the topics as presented on screen. But it also ended up being pretty personal at times by the author, using those moments of life to show us how she got into science and why she's trying to tell people about it. Some really good stuff here.