Take Me To Your Leader by Neil deGrasse Tyson

A New York Times bestseller from Neil deGrasse Tyson, the world's favourite astrophysicist. A practical guide for your first alien encounter, and a lifetime's fascination distilled into one entertaining book.

Ever since childhood, Neil deGrasse Tyson has wanted to be abducted by aliens.

Take Me to Your Leader is the culmination of that lifetime of speculation, and of years spent quietly amassing scientific data on the possibility of alien life visiting Earth. Would an alien really be a humanoid with a pointy head, or might it look more like a worm, a roving cloud of gas, or a testicle monster? How should you communicate with an alien that doesn't speak English, and what does that have to do with the Pythagorean Theorem? Why has no alien apparently ever contacted us, and what does that say about how likeable our species is? And if one did demand to be taken to your leader, who exactly are you meant to take it to?

Drawing on history, literature, pop culture, and film, Tyson applies the universal laws of physics to what aliens might look like, how they might travel to reach us, and what they might make of us on arrival. Touching on Star Wars and Spielberg, UFOs and Area 51, this is both a romping work of popular science and a love letter to our as-yet-uncontacted extraterrestrial friends.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, host and cofounder of the Emmy-nominated StarTalk podcast, and author of the number one bestseller Astrophysics for People in a Hurry.

"Close encounters of the hilarious kind. A fun romp through the possibilities of alien lifeforms and the physics that might allow them to land in our backyards." Kirkus Reviews