Timothy Ferris (born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer. He is best known for Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), a history of astronomy which won the Science Writing Award.[1] He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular overview of cosmology.[2] In The Science of Liberty (2010), he argues that scientific thinking played a role in democracy.[3] Ferris has produced three PBS documentaries: The Creation of the Universe (1985), Life Beyond Earth (1999), and Seeing in the Dark (2007).[4] He was a producer of the Voyager Golden Record, a sample of the sights and sounds of Earth sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft.[5]