Another Look At Atlantis

by Willy Ley

An awe inspiring and thought provoking book!

Genres: Nonfiction

229 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Willy Ley (sometimes credited as Willie Ley) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a funny little book. It's sixteen essays written by Willy Ley, who wrote a lot of pop-science articles and really led the charge for rocketry in its early years. As pop-science articles per se they're quite good, with some reminiscent of the television series "Connections" in how they bounce around the history of science in service of some overarching theme. As pop-science articles in the light of $CURRENT_YEAR science they can verge on the quaint, especially when it comes to the articles on astronomy. Ley is a careful writer with solid reasoning, he also wrote many of the essays in the decades before anyone had put anything up into space, and scientific knowledge in that arena has revealed a reality far stranger than what was suspected before.

Overall this is 2.5 stars. Don't try to learn much about science from this because the facts are probably all outdated, some badly. But if you are familiar, it's a charming and quick read.

[Lore · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely collection of essays, on all sorts of things. And although this book was published about 50 years ago, it was still interesting to read about the state of affairs and knowledge at that time.