In other times, the astrolabe guided sailors on their journeys and revealed to people the movements of the stars and their bright flashes. The modern astrolabe, held by the reader, has no different ambition. However, the journey it promises hides greater surprises and unexpected routes. It will start from the wonders of the Universe, the distant galaxies and comets, the antimatter and the superluminous explosions of stars. Then, it will seek the answers that today's science gives to the eternal questions of man: about the concept of time but also the existence of extraterrestrial life, about the great experiment of CERN but also the detection of the ghostly neutrino in the depths of Pylos' waters.

Its collaboration with the reader, however, will allow the astrolabe to embark on a different journey. That in the world of man and his Life. First, it will try to detect the painful crisis that holds Greece captive today; and to identify, in its recent course, the causes of today's woes, but also its achievements. The journey will be completed - with the collaboration of the reader, always - with a glimpse into the modern man and his fate; who feels suspended between the explosive development of technology and the dominance of an economic system with a callous face.

So, the journey promised by the modern Astrolabe has a familiar destination. It is the worlds that the author has been moving in for years: the mysteries of the Universe and the course of Greece, the conquests of science and human fate. Only these worlds of the author, like the Universe itself after the Big Bang, now seem to suddenly and inexplicably expand, as if they want to cover space and time. Their expectation is that somewhere there they will meet the worlds of the reader, his anxieties and his questions. Then the handshake, between the author and the reader, will no longer be in the dark. It will be under the light of the stars and with the stamp revealed by an astrolabe of the Sky and Life.