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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

byJaime Green

Science writer Jaime Green explores the search for life beyond Earth through astronomy, biology, planetary science, philosophy, and speculative imagination. She examines what counts as life, where researchers expect to find it, and how assumptions based on Earth shape instruments and missions. Science fiction becomes a partner in thinking about unfamiliar organisms, intelligence, kinship, and first contact. The book treats astrobiology as both empirical investigation and a mirror for human values, asking how discovering even microbial life—or remaining alone—would change ideas about nature, responsibility, and our place in the cosmos.

Publisher

Harlequin Enterprises ULC

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781335463548