The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time

Performs a similar trick to Samantha Harvey's recent Booker-winning novel Orbital, flipping our perspective so that we see our individual, terrestrial lives through the lens of deep space and deep time. * The Sunday Times * Gordon's thinking about the subject develops its own kind of new fusion skin, putting forward a vision in which there is no barrier between our planet and our universe -- Natalie Whittle * Financial Times * Gripping, deft and riveting. Gordon moves with total mastery from the human to the cosmic and back again -- Noreen Masud, author * A Flat Place * A brilliantly engaging tour of meteorites, a book that reminds us that while they might come from outer space they are part and parcel of our planet -- Travis Elborough, author * Atlas of Unexpected Places * Praise for Notes from Deep Time: Astounding ... To call this a "history" does not do justice to Helen Gordon's ambition ... Sheer intellectual and poetical entertainment -- Simon Ings * Daily Telegraph * Profoundly considered and far-reaching ... Notes from Deep Time reaches into a place that, in a post-religious era, offers a glimpse of something close to eternity * FT * A marvel-rich masterclass of narrative non-fiction, one of those books that teaches its reader to see the world completely differently -- Max Porter Awe-inspiring * Mail on Sunday *