Dr Ian Flitcroft is an eye surgeon at Temple St Children's hospital. He has been extensively published in the academic world with more than 30 scientific peer-reviewed papers and contributions to four multi-author books. Outside medicine he is the author of an award winning popular science blog (www.journeybystarlight.com) which has gathered in excess of 600,000 views. This blog was spotted by a book agent and developed into a unique graphic novel popular science book.