Patrick Moore

Britain's beloved astronomer, who pointed the same telescope at real skies and imagined ones.

Patrick Moore was Britain's most famous popularizer of astronomy — the monocled, fast-talking host of the long-running television program The Sky at Night and the author of countless nonfiction books that taught generations to look up. Less widely known is that he also wrote science fiction, mostly for young readers, drawing on the same lifelong love of the cosmos.

His SF novels, including the Scott Saunders and various space-adventure series, brought a real astronomer's grasp of planets, orbits, and the solar system to brisk tales of exploration aimed at curious young minds. The science was sound because the man behind it had spent his life studying the actual sky.

Expect enthusiastic, knowledgeable, wonder-filled storytelling tuned for readers discovering space for the first time. Moore is a charming pick for those who like their science fiction informed by genuine astronomy — the work of a man whose passion for the real universe was the engine behind every imagined voyage he wrote.