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"This is Preston's best book, and it is the best book ever written about astronomers and the things they do. The science is accurate, the portraits of the human characters are true to life, and the story whizzes along like a ride on a roller-coaster."
--Freeman Dyson
"Preston is a master storyteller, pure and simple. When he turns his talents to science writing, the result is spellbinding. First Light gives a novelist's feeling for the scientific enterprise and its characters."
--Alan Lightman
"I love First Light more than any book of its kind. It's the only book I've ever studied to learn what makes it so hypnotically absorbing. I've not yet unlocked its secrets, but whatever Richard Preston does to breathe life into his world of astronomers and their mountaintop machinery, his gifts transcend mere talent."
--Robert Kanigel
"First Light was Richard Preston's bright first light, now renewed. All the intelligence and brio that would blaze from The Hot Zone was there all along. Read First Light--you'll see stars!"
--Richard Rhodes
"First Light is first of all a love letter to the Palomar Observatory and to a handful of astronomers and civilians who are using it to plumb a few of the details of our situation here in the universe. It is one of the finest accounts of scientists at work that I have read. Most writers say they want their books to read like a novel, but Preston actually delivers."
--Dennis Overbye
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