The Universe: The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox

Written by Andrew Cohen and Professor Brian Cox

Narrated by Brian Cox and Jot Davies

Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.

We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovered thousands of alien planets, and that’s barely a fraction of the worlds that are out there. And there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on every planet in the Solar System. But amid all this vastness, the Milky Way Galaxy, our Sun and the Earth are home to the only known life in the Universe – at least for now.

With a foreword from Professor Brian Cox, and access to all the latest NASA mission information, Andrew Cohen takes readers on a voyage of discovery, via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart. And beyond our galaxy, the expanding Universe, which holds clues to the biggest mystery of all – how did it all begin? We now know more about those first moments of existence than we ever thought possible, and hidden in this story of how it all began are the clues to the fate of the Universe itself and everything in it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Release date: Oct 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9780008389345

Andrew Cohen

Andrew Cohen is a spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global non-profit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication EnlightenNext magazine. After the collapse of EnlightenNextin 2013, Cohen took several years off from public teaching. In 2020, he and a group of collaborators launched Manifest Nirvana, a sanctuary for deep transformation, where 21st- century spiritual explorers and integral pioneers will find their home. The author of several books, including Evolutionary Enlightenment, he lives in India.

Reviews for The Universe

[Jem · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent, thrilling, informative. Will probably listen to it again because it’s so fascinating

[knaan · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Read this!
This is the real deal compared to the BBC series, where you get sugarcoated visuals and a horribly dominant, while immature, audio track.