Title: Useful for both SF writers and a General Reference
Product review: I am not a SF writer and really do not have plans to become one, but since I have an interest in astronomy, I found myself, by turns, buying and looking over this book.The detail in the book is very good. While the equations and mathematics will turn off some, they ARE necessary in order to construct a "believable" science fiction world, and the authors do take pains to make it as "plug and play" as possible.The best part of the book is the last, with the authors imaginative and fanciful planetary settings for science fiction stories. The "clorox" world has to be read to be believed.The only caveat to the book is the inevitable march of planetary knowledge slowly rendering some details of our own solar system slightly incorrect.
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