Ian Graham is an author with more than 30 years' experience in popular science, technology and history He has written extensively for magazines and has written and co-written more than 200 books on a wide range of topics, including space exploration, aviation, transport, energy, communications, inventions and military technology He has a degree in applied physics and a postgraduate diploma in journalism In 2012 he was the joint winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize and in 2014 he was shortlisted for the Educational Writers' Award