It’s a little tardy– my first book came out in 2002, after all — but Barrel of Monkeys just reviewed Bad Astronomy.
The conclusion?
In fact, I move that Bad Astronomy be a recommended text book at secondary schools everywhere, or even primary schools, for that matter. Scratch that. Everyone in the world should read this book. Phil Plait manages to break things down to an easily understandable level, so that people without a background in physics or astronomy* can grasp the core concepts.
I agree. In fact, I’d be happy to reduce my royalty to a mere one penny per book if that would make what he wishes come true. I suspect $60M would be a sufficient and acceptable paycheck. You can start now if you’d like, and if it does sell six billion copies, I’ll send you a refund for the difference*.
*Disclaimer: No I won’t.
Wow, I lost to PZ again. You might think that this isn’t really about good science, but might just be a popularity contest.
Oh. Right.
At least he lost the Editors’ Choice.
Thanks for the votes, folks. I feel the lurv.
Oh– some other guy wrote about this too.
When last we saw my book Bad Astronomy, it was in Belgrade, Serbia. It’s also been in Australia, so the international hits keep coming.
This time, it’s in Scotland! Edinburgh, to be more specific, and the Royal Observatory there to be really precise. BABloggee Iain Turnbull sent me the proof:
That is very cool. Also cool: I met John Brown, the Astronomer Royal of Scotland at Randi’s very first Amaz!ng Meeting.
Small world. And the book has seen a lot of it… and there’s still more to come. 
So, do you own a copy of the book? Take a picture of yourself holding it in some fun location, send it to me, and I’ll post it here!
