Comments on: Book review – Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures

By: inquisitivebiologist

inquisitivebiologist — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:09:14 +0000

In reply to Andreas.

Oooh, very nice, thank you!

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:02:27 +0000

Great review! A fitting SF novella would be Ian MacLeod‘s „New Light on the Drake Equation“, https://reiszwolf.wordpress.com/2021/11/04/new-light-on-the-drake-equation-2001-near-future-sf-novella-by-ian-r-macleod/

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Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:53:53 +0000

[…] on water worlds with landmasses (readers interested in this will want to check out the massive Life in the Cosmos). Although what McGhee covers here is interesting, I admit that I felt a bit let down by the […]

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By: Book review – Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:37:48 +0000

[…] its lessons for astrobiology, Powell engages with this topic in a far more thorough manner. Despite decades of effort, the stars remain eerily silent. Which brings us back to contingency and convergence as the third […]

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By: Book review – Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:35:45 +0000

[…] we seek for signs of life? What makes a good biosignature? This is discussed far more in-depth in Life in the Cosmos, but Hand considers three types of […]

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