Description
""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!""
-Greg Bear
""I loved it.""
-Larry Niven
""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.""
-Gregory Benford
""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.""
-Dougal Dixon, author of
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
Author: Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Published: 10/25/2002
Pages: 369
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.36w x 1.21d
ISBN13: 9780471268895
ISBN10: 0471268895
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
- Science | Life Sciences | Biology
- Science | Life Sciences | Evolution
-Greg Bear
""I loved it.""
-Larry Niven
""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.""
-Gregory Benford
""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.""
-Dougal Dixon, author of
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
Author: Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Published: 10/25/2002
Pages: 369
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.36w x 1.21d
ISBN13: 9780471268895
ISBN10: 0471268895
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Space Science | Astronomy
- Science | Life Sciences | Biology
- Science | Life Sciences | Evolution
About the Author
JACK COHEN is an internationally known reproductive biologist and the coauthor, with Ian Stewart, of The Collapse of Chaos and Figments of Reality.
IAN STEWART is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University in the United Kingdom. Among his sixty published books are The Magical Maze and Life's Other Secret, both from Wiley.