Reviews for The Planets

The average rating for The Planets based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-03-26 00:00:00 Michael Kubasek So, it's from 1985 and the scientific information about the planets has been refined since then. But the science writing by top scientists and science writers is still worth reading. The stories will never get old - how about Jack Williamson's story about "mutant viruses forever infesting the crowded earth". I liked that Marta Randall was included, and I liked that the sequence began with Earth, went out to Pluto, and back around to Mercury. There are even some of Alan Bean's illustrations. Never get rid of this book!

Review # 2 was written on 2010-08-08 00:00:00 Kiersten Marcos This book has one chapter of non-fiction and one chapter of fiction regarding each planet in the solar system plus the moon and asteroids. The science in the non-fiction articles are stale having predated Galileo, Cassini, everything after 1985. Several of the short stories are slap-dash and not very high quality but there are a couple of real gems and a previously uncollected Martian Chronicle by Ray Bradbury that may make owning the book worthwhile.