Hello again, everyone. I'm At Kaplan, Senior Communications Advisor at the Planetary Society, and former host of Planetary Radio.

Here's the third in our new monthly series that brings the best of the Planetary Society

book club to Planrat listeners.

This month's guest is very special to us.

Davis-Obell is so much more than a science communicator. Galileo's daughter, a more perfect

heaven, longitude, the glass universe, planets, and her most recent masterpiece, The Elements of Marie

Curie. I've read and recommend all of them. Each is a jewel of nonfiction literature, stories told by an

author who loves science and the wonder it generates. As you'll hear, it was when Deva partnered

with the society to present a dramatic reading from Galileo's daughter that I first met and

interviewed her. That was in 2003.

She would join me on planetary radio many more times.

It was just last June that we shared another wonderful conversation with her.

That was hours before she received the Society's Cosmos Award at a Washington, D.C. banquet.

I highly recommend listening to that interview as an introduction to the one you'll hear in moments.

We've got the link on the show page at planetary.org slash radio.

I spent yet another wonderful hour with Deva in August.

This live, online conversation capped our book club's month-long celebration of all her work.

And it's the one we're proud to share with you now.

It all started, at least my involvement with you, back with Galileo's daughter.

Not when the book came out in 20, wait a minute here.

1999.

1999, thank you, which was, what, four years after you published Longitude, which I also have to say something. In fact, I'll say it right now.

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