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Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century

A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far

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Length 4 hours 17 minutes
Language English
Narrators Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jim Meskimen, André Santana, Bronson Pinchot, Pun Bandhu, a full cast, Em Grosland, Lauren Fortgang, Luzma Ortiz, Kevin R. Free & Jaime Lincoln Smith

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A USA Today bestseller!

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.

In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth’s history. Merlin’s friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time—da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble. While Merlin occasionally recounts playful conversations with these luminaries, all questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, and an occasional rhyme. With the help of intermittent humorous cartoons, Merlin clarifies the details of familiar phenomena like gravity, light, space, and time, and travels to distant stars and galaxies to describe what makes them tick, rotate, explode, and collapse.

Merlin’s Tour of the Universe is perfect for anyone who harbors burning questions on how the cosmos works.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, science communicator, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. His Death by Black Hole was a New York Times bestseller.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, science communicator, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and host of the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. His Death by Black Hole was a New York Times bestseller.

Jim Meskimen is a stage, film, and television actor who has appeared in many well-known movies and television shows. He acted in Apollo 13 and Frost/Nixon, both of which were nominated for Best Picture Oscars. He is the winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Tamra Meskimen.

André Santana is a NYC-based audiobook narrator on a journey to tell great stories. He's a Black, Latin, and non-binary voice actor delivering intentional and human performances. Operating with a keen sense for realistic delivery, he inevitably becomes a fan of every book he narrates and shares that joy through his performances.

Bronson Pinchot is an Earphones and Audie Award–winning narrator and Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010.

Pun Bandhu is an award-winning actor who has worked on Broadway, off Broadway, in TV, and in film. He is the recipient of the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Award for Best Supporting Actor and New Dramatists’ Bowden Award for his distinguished collaboration on new works.

Lauren Fortgang lives in New York City where she currently works as an actor and voiceover artist. She was born in Wilmington, DE. She had early training at A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory and is a graduate of Fordham University: College at Lincoln Center, where she majored in theater. Her curiosity for finding new niches in the industry has afforded her a broad career spectrum as an actor, singer, spokesperson, audiobook narrator, podcaster, and even costume designer.

Kevin R. Free is an actor, writer, director, and producer whose work has been developed both regionally and in NYC. He is an accomplished voice actor, having created voices for commercials and, most notably, the voice of Kevin for the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale.

Jaime Lincoln Smith is an Audie-nominated narrator credited on over seventeen titles. An actor based in New York City, he has been featured on Broadway and Off-Broadway as well as on network television and in films.

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Reviews

“Tyson has become the most influential science communicator in the country.”

“Tyson has created a space-age Merlin. An astrophysicist and educator, Tyson weaves together imaginative with straightforward science.”

“We all have some questions we’d like to ask about astronomy. Well, here they are—and the answers too, short, straightforward, light-hearted, and correct.”

“Tyson is a master of streamlining and simplification…taking mind-bogglingly complex ideas, stripping them down to their nuts and bolts, padding them with colorful allegories and dorky jokes, and making them accessible to the layperson.”

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