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Tyson described the upcoming book as his most heartfelt work, featuring his replies to letters from people in prison, those with terminal illness, and various other correspondents.

I have a book coming out in a month called letters from an astrophysicist.

— Episode: #1347 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Episode: #1347 - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tyson described the upcoming book as his most heartfelt work, featuring his replies to letters from people in prison, those with terminal illness, and various other correspondents.

I have a book coming out in a month called letters from an astrophysicist.

This book will be available when it comes out in October. I'm very proud of this book; it's my most heartfelt thing that I've ever done. It includes letters from people in prison, a person who just learned they had terminal cancer, and many others reaching out.

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The book contains a chapter dedicated to exploring the intersection of religion and science, including communication with people who've had religious experiences or profound thoughts on the relationship between these two fields.

In my book, Letters from an Astrophysicist, there's an entire chapter of me communicating with people who had religious experiences or deep thoughts at the intersection between religion and science.

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It was being translated into Portuguese in Brazil, and Neil wrote a letter to Brazil rather than the people of Brazil, as he felt it would be less divisive.

One of my books, letters from an astrophysicist was being translated into Portuguese in Brazil. And they said, do you mind writing a letter to the Portuguese people as a, just to welcome them to this book, to this translated book?

Let me write it to something that's not going to complain. Something that can't say anything. So I said, I wrote a letter to Brazil and that letter that it leads off the Brazilian translation of it. And it was, it's a celebration of all that we in America know in the United States know of Brazil and things that maybe they can be more proud of.

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It was mentioned that Neil deGrasse Tyson had received letters from individuals including conspiracy theorists for this book, and Michael Shermer had him on his podcast to discuss it.

I was honored, Michael, that you had invited me onto your podcast for my last book which was Letters from an Astrophysicist.

I was honored that you saw that in me enough to have me as a guest on your podcast.

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It was mentioned as a new book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, containing personal correspondence with the public on various topics, such as creationism and UFOs, and was said to include some heart-wrenching letters, like one from a prisoner.

At the risk of sounding like it's a shameless plug, um, I, I have a book coming out on Tuesday. It's called 'Letters from an Astrophysicist'.

And it contains correspondence I've had over the years with the public on all manner of very personal, private things that I just never talked about on YouTube videos or on shows such as this.

And you've never seen me debate a creationist, for example, or a ufologist. I'd never, I, they're in here.

Uh, someone asked is there a large hairy ape wandering the Pacific Northwest. I engaged that person in this book. Three letters are from prisoners.

One who's serving time and he won't be able to watch his kids grow through their teenage years wrote to me and said I just learned that they like science. Is there any advice you can give me that I can share with them to reassure them that I still love them?