Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars: Library Edition

from nmele

Once one gets past the first two chapters, which seemed to me an unfortunately starry-eyed account of Frank Drake and SETI, this book turns into an engaging tour of the people, technologies and ideas behind the search for planets orbiting other suns; along the way, Billings conveys some of the sc...

from DLMorrese

Subtitled 'The Search for Life Among the Stars', the author first looks at the one planet we know most about, Earth; how it began, how life came about, what it was like before humans came into the picture and what it will be like after we're gone. It's a good overview. The one inescapable take aw...

from stellarexplorer

Since I was a small child I've dreamt of the stars, and of the myriad forms of life that no doubt dwell on distant planets. We are on the threshold of that journey, via the only mode of travel available in our lifetimes. This book is about exoplanets, planets in orbit around stars other than the ...

from dougcornelius

Will we ever discover intelligent life beyond our planet? Is there is intelligent life beyond ours? Are there habitable planets other than Earth? Will humans be around long enough to to find out? Or be discovered by other civilizations? This book offers both hopeful and melancholy answers to thes...

from clmerle

It had some nice tidbits in it, but it wasn't the book I was expecting. About half of it was about the people and their stories, do it's as much biography as it is about SETI.