David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden and American Eclipse. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

"The world is gaga for Mars. Its richest man, Elon Musk, is actively scheming to colonize the red planet over the next decade… Under the long, dark shadow cast by this ambition, the science journalist David Baron has produced a short, twinkling book about the origins of Mars mania… You can consider Baron a sort of sun, shedding light… In Baron’s true tale, reputations rise and fall, and ego distorts like a smudged lens."

David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden and American Eclipse. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

"The world is gaga for Mars. Its richest man, Elon Musk, is actively scheming to colonize the red planet over the next decade… Under the long, dark shadow cast by this ambition, the science journalist David Baron has produced a short, twinkling book about the origins of Mars mania… You can consider Baron a sort of sun, shedding light… In Baron’s true tale, reputations rise and fall, and ego distorts like a smudged lens."

David Baron is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author of The Beast in the Garden and American Eclipse. A former science correspondent for NPR, he has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, and other publications. David recently served as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

"The world is gaga for Mars. Its richest man, Elon Musk, is actively scheming to colonize the red planet over the next decade… Under the long, dark shadow cast by this ambition, the science journalist David Baron has produced a short, twinkling book about the origins of Mars mania… You can consider Baron a sort of sun, shedding light… In Baron’s true tale, reputations rise and fall, and ego distorts like a smudged lens."