The Unfixed Stars

What makes 'Percival's Planet' so irresistible is a more down-to-earth human focus brought to the story through fictional characters and events. Byers has the rare ability to break a reader's heart practically from the moment each new character is introduced. - Oregonlive.com The power of Byers' writing will keep readers turning pages. . . . Byers has a gift for capturing the exhilaration of discover. The depth and precision of his descriptions bring his striving, searching characters fully into focus -Dallas News Byers's writing, always lyrical, shimmers and trembles and breaks our hearts. 'Percival's Planet' a story of earth, sky and bones, of privilege and struggle, of grave and beautiful people is. . . deserving of our admiration and awe. - Boston Globe
Faultless storytelling. A gloriously expansive view of Depression-era America. -Publishers Weekly (Starred

What makes 'Percival's Planet' so irresistible is a more down-to-earth human focus brought to the story through fictional characters and events. Byers has the rare ability to break a reader's heart practically from the moment each new character is introduced. - Oregonlive.com The power of Byers' writing will keep readers turning pages. . . . Byers has a gift for capturing the exhilaration of discover. The depth and precision of his descriptions bring his striving, searching characters fully into focus -Dallas News Byers's writing, always lyrical, shimmers and trembles and breaks our hearts. 'Percival's Planet' a story of earth, sky and bones, of privilege and struggle, of grave and beautiful people is. . . deserving of our admiration and awe. - Boston Globe
Faultless storytelling. A gloriously expansive view of Depression-era America. --Publishers Weekly (Starred)
Michael Byers has written an historical novel about a famous scientist and the race to solve one of the nineteenth century's greatest unsolved mysteries. The author has done a wonderful job of letting readers follow young Clyde Tombaugh as he creates an opportunity for himself to escape from Kansas, pursue his dream of becoming an astronomer, and demonstrate his stubborn, farmboy's stick-to-it work ethic that enabled him to accomplish what the more experienced professionals could not. --David A. Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, Vanderbilt University

Percival is a smart read, a lovely read, and no matter what Pluto is, planet or planetoid, Byers' own world is just as interesting - Pittsburgh City Paper

This is the stuff of page-turners, loaded with romance, ambition and betrayals. With this kind of book, once you speed through the first two-thirds, you start rationing out chapters to yourself one at a time to make it last. - The Courier-Journal

. . . lyrical, with many beautiful descriptive passages. The historical aspect is fascinating, and the characters are often