Roberto Trotta, Theoretical Cosmologist, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London; Author, The Edge of the Sky

From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, Trotta’s book The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology – with a twist. He uses a lexicon limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding “physics,” “energy,” “galaxy,” or even “universe.” Through the eyes of a fictional scientist (Student-People) hunting for dark matter with one of the biggest telescopes (Big-Seers) on Earth (Home-World), Trotta explores the most important ideas about our universe (All-there-is) in language simple enough for anyone to understand.