Ann Finkbeiner has now written the history of the original Sloan Digital Sky Survey, with a nod to SDSS-II and SDSS-III. The publication date is August 17 2010, and can be found at a number of booksellers .
Below is the cover of the SDSS book A Grand and Bold Thing .
My wife and I worked on the Sloan Digital from 1999 to 2007
Will love to read this book and be proud we were part of this wonderful telsscope
Initial reaction to the book, see
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-grand-and-bold-thing
http://www.theawl.com/2010/08/the-bookmobile-an-excerpt-from-ann-finkbeiners-a-grand-and-bold-thing
Just finished reading it and well done Anne. Weird to see my name mentioned but helped to bring back some great memories. An excellent Christmas gift.