THE VACATION GUIDE TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM

The savvy traveler’s must-have handbook to the most breathtaking off-world destinations.

From helping you decide whether to travel via cryogenic preservation (if you’re the kind of person who gets bored on long trips, then yes) or the more cutting-edge nuclear thermal rockets (never-before-attempted, but you can be the first) to advising you where to visit (looking to get maximum bang for your buck? Try going to Mercury, where each day is over 1,400 hours long!), all you need to ask yourself before opening this proposal is “Where would I like to go?”

The aesthetic of THE INTERGALACTIC TRAVEL BUREAU’S VACATION GUIDE is perfect mid-century nostalgia: Mad Men meets The Jetsons. But because it’s written by a science journalist and an astronomer (who works down the hall from Neil DeGrasse Tyson) it reads like What If? meets The Martian. Everything in these pages is 100% scientifically accurate. This is a book that seizes on popular culture’s fascination with all things science, and, more to the point, our renewed obsession with space travel. In association with the famed Guerilla Science, and with vocal supporters like DeGrasse Tyson, (with whom the authors are speaking this week about blurbing the book), THE INTERGALACTIC TRAVEL BUREAU’S VACATION GUIDE TO THE SOLAR SYSTEM will inform and delight science nerds and generalists alike.

Olivia Koski has a degree in physics and a Master of Journalism at NYU, and is currently Director of Guerilla Science. As a senior producer at The Atavist Magazine, she produced 30 interactive journalism stories, where her work was nominated for five National Magazine Awards and one Emmy. She’s spoken on the future of journalism, laser weapons, and immersive storytelling at panels around New York. Her writing has appeared in Wired, Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, and Harvard University’s Nieman Storyboard.

Jana Grcevich, PhD., is a Kathryn W. Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). She received her undergraduate degrees in astronomy, physics, and mathematics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and her doctorate in astronomy at Columbia University. Her research interests include dwarf galaxies and interstellar gas, with a focus on radio observations and simulations of gas in dwarf galaxies. She teaches astronomy to future high school Earth Science teachers as a part of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at AMNH.