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ISBN: 9780091886165 - What Does a Martian Look Like
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What Does a Martian Look Like

The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

Stewart, Ian; Cohen, Jack

ISBN: 9780471447085
Format: Electronic Book
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons
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"e;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!"e;-Greg Bear"e;I loved it."e;-Larry Niven "e;Ever wonder about what aliens could be like…

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"e;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!"e;-Greg Bear"e;I loved it."e;-Larry Niven "e;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."e;-Gregory Benford"e;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."e;-Dougal Dixon, author of After Man: A Zoology of the Future
 
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