The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A dazzling cultural and scientific exploration of alien life and the cosmos, examining how the poss…
Want to Read $ 14.99"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording human and alien characters alike a wealth of super-advanced technology—extrapolating even a few steps beyond the current moment started to lead to impossible-to-imagine futures."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"…science fiction writers may have been the first people to realize the unknowability of where technology would lead us… Where it used to be possible to set stories millennia in the future—affording human and alien characters alike a wealth of super-advanced technology—extrapolating even a few steps beyond the current moment started to lead to impossible-to-imagine futures."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
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2. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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Format: 448 pages, ebook
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By: Zoë Schlanger
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Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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4. The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
By: Jaime Green
4.02
Format: 288 pages, ebook
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"We’re not alone because we’re not separate from the swirl of a galaxy’s arms or the way wind catches dust in a gyre. We’re no more an anomaly than an atom is."-Jaime Green, The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
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5. The Little Book of Aliens
By: Adam Frank
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Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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6. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
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7. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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11. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
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4.04
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12. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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4.08
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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3.68
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18. The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
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21. Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
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