Solar System (Mapping Science)

His early books included The Mysterious Sun (Putnam); How We Will Explore the Outer Planets (Putnam); and How Will We Feed the Hungry Billions? (Messner). He wrote Solar System, published in October 2002 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (U.S. distributor Sterling Publishing), was a contributing author for The Science Book (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, September 2001), and is currently researching a book on the Reagan-era Strategic Defense Initiative.

At various times he worked for United Press International, created and edited the Bermuda News Pictorial, was promotion director for an electronics trade school in Utah, and served as an information officer during the launch of the Project Galileo spacecraft.

He lives with his teenaged son in the village of Los Ranchos de Albuquerque. Two older children, and his son-in-law and grandson, live in England. He has a degree in mass communications and is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of British Science Writers, British Interplanetary Society, British Association for the Advancement of Science, and South West Writers. He is a life member of the U.S. National Association of Science Writers.