What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

ISBN-13: 9780471268895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 384 str.

Jack Cohen; Ian Stewart

Opis

""A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informative piece of work-nothing else like it ""
-Greg Bear
""I loved it.""
-Larry Niven
""Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence.""
-Gregory Benford
""A celebration of life off Earth. A hearteningly optimistic book, giving a much-needed antidote to the pessimism of astrobiologists who maintain that we are alone in the universe-a stance based on a very narrow view of what could constitute life. A triumph of speculative nonfiction.""
-Dougal Dixon, author of
After Man: A Zoology of the Future