Author: Gordon Dillow

Gordon Dillow is a veteran journalist, columnist, and former war correspondent who has written for newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register. Fire in the Sky turns his reporting skills toward asteroids and comets, explaining past impacts, present detection work, and the practical problem of planetary defence. Scribner published the popular-science book in 2019. Dillow visits observatories, follows researchers who search for near-Earth objects, and examines the planning exercises used to test possible responses. The result connects astronomy with public preparedness while retaining the scale and wonder of objects moving through the solar system.