"...this book is not only eminently readable, erudite and full of insight, but also skillfully weaves together the conversion of comets from mere celestial wanderers to objects of considerable astrophysical interest, the development of the public's interest in comets, and the advances in art as paintings and prints eventually competed with chromolithographs and photographs. The authors and publishers must be congratulated on bringing this fascinating symbiosis between science, politics and art to the attention of a wider public." New Scientist

"My first reaction to this book...was 'What a fascinating subject!'; my second to admire the apparent thoroughness and scholarship with which the authors had approached their interdisciplinary subject, and the delightful way in which the publishers had enabled them to illustrate their chosen field in a comprehensive manner." The Observatory

"...skillfully weaves together the conversion of comets from mere celestial wanderers to objects of considerable astrophysical interest, the development of the public's interest in comets, and the advances in art as paintings and prints competed with chromolithographs and photographs. The authors and publishers must be congratulated for bringing this fascinating symbiosis between science, politics and art to the attention of a wider public." New Scientist

"Fire in the Sky is a truly amazing book. The book's smooth transitions from science to art are done with skill and grace. This book will be very useful for innovative teachers who have an understanding of art and science (or both). An elementary school teacher could develop an innovative curriculum for merging science and art in the fourth and fifth grades; students could be mesmerized and their learning expanded by such a technique. Anyone who enjoys astronomy should have Fire in the Sky in their library." Paul K. Grogger, Science Books & Films

"Art historians, amateur and professional astronomers, and the general public will find Fire in the Sky a feast of celestial images." Orion S 288

"Overall, this is a beautifully produced book, with many fine illustrations which few astronomers will have seen before...Olson and Pasachoff have produced an interesting and at times provocative commentary..." Astronomy Now

"...this book's biggest attraction is...the lavish meal of full-colour images it contains." The Times Higher Education Supplement

"More than 160 reproductions of paintings, photographs, and art-objects with comets and meteors as their subjects stud this book's pages...Fire in the Sky's illustrations chronicle the development of British visual art concerning comets and meteors from the late Renaissance to our own century. Across the same period, Olson and Pasachoff trace the transformation of human understanding of meteors and comets, from a superstitious regard of them as volatile omens of disaster or propitious births to the modern understanding of them as predictable mechanisms in the clockwork universe." Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin