New Novel from Stuart Clark

Stuart Clark's The Sky's Dark Labyrinth
Watch this space for information on a cracking debut novel due out in March 2011. Author and well-known astronomer Stuart Clark brings us the first book in a new trilogy, The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth…

At the dawn of the seventeenth century everyone believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yet a small handful of men knew that the heavens did not move as they should. And some of these men began to suspect that this heresy was in fact the truth. As Europe convulsed in conflict between Catholic and Protestant, these men prepared to die for that truth. This is the story of Kepler and Galileo, two men whose struggle with themselves, with the evidence and with the forces of reaction changed not simply themselves but our world.

The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth is the first of a trilogy of novels inspired by the dramatic struggles, personal and professional, and key historical events in man’s quest to understand the Universe.

The Author Stuart Clark is a former editor of the UK’s bestselling popular astronomy magazine Astronomy Now and a visiting fellow of the University of Hertfordshire. His book, The Sun Kings (Princeton University Press, 2007), established him as a popular science writer par excellence. Last year Stuart further honed his storytelling skills by working for the BBC to develop ten stories for a forthcoming science-based drama series, Stormshield, and writing the outline for the astronomy episode of a forthcoming BBC2 series on the history of science. Most recently, he has dramatised and read a portion of The Sun Kings for Radio 3.

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