The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
by Jaime Green
Science journalist Jaime Green tells the history of our quest for intelligent life in the universe, exploring the complex science and the science fiction that helps us picture what we might find—and what that might means for humanity.
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