Piers Bizony

Piers Bizony has written about space exploration and cosmology for a wide variety of magazines in the UK and the US. "2001: Filming the Future," his award-winning book on the making of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," has become a standard reference work for the movie's many fans around the world. In 1997, "The Rivers of Mars," his critically acclaimed analysis of the life on Mars debate, was short listed for the NASA/Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Writing, while "Island in the Sky" investigated the politics of the International Space Station. "Starman," produced as a book and a BBC film in partnership with TV producer Jamie Doran, told the story of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's life for the first time; and "Invisible Worlds" (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) explored the strange borderland where 21st Century science meets art. Bizony also helped create the Millennium Fund bid for the@Bristol multimedia complex in the UK, and was creative consultant for the Cosmic Voyage planetarium at the Futuroscope park in Poitiers, France. His latest book, "The Man Who Ran The Moon" (due for publication this June), tells the story of James E. Webb, the brilliant yet controversial administrator who led NASA as it reached for the moon. Bizony is currently completing "Space 50," a major illustrated book for world-wide publishers Harper Collins, in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.