How would first contact-on earth, in space, on another
planet-transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and
what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would
society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized
sentience on Earth?
What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an
impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view
of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the depths of
space? Or . . .
Life-beyond us.
Dive in as the European Astrobiology Institute presents fifty-four
original SF Stories and Science Essays on life, from microbial to
macro, from automatic to sagacious. Each speculative story is followed
by a professional essay illuminating the scientific underpinnings of
the story and providing a new window into the cutting-edge knowledge
about exploration for life in the universe.
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