A guide to the most exciting field of modern science: the search for extraterrestrial life. It identifies, locates, and describes the research projects; everything from radio dishes searching for intelligent alien signals to deep oceanic research, seeking links between terrestrial organisms and the broader cosmos.
Author description
Piers Bizony is a full-time popular science writer. He won NASA's Eugene Emme Ward award for Astronautical writing for his book, The Rivers of Mars: Searching for the Cosmic Origins of Life, chronicling the Mars Viking hunt for life in the 1970s.