The world is on the brink of chaotic demise as an unseen war rages between those who strive to protect humanity and those who wish to destroy it all together. Just when it seems as though there is no hope left, an unlikely hero emerges to turn the tides.
NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads.
See here for the author of "The Old Astronomer", also known as "The Old Astronomer to His Pupil", that begins "Reach me down my Tycho Brahe..." and contains the line "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."