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What Does a Martian Look Like?: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life

by Jack Cohen

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"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

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Book details

Author
Jack Cohen, Ian Stewart
Imprint
Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
369
Formats
Hardcover
Subjects
Science › Space Science › Astronomy
Science › Life Sciences › Biology
Topics
alien biology · astrobiology · evolution · space science · speculative science · astronomy
ISBN-13
9780471268895

About the author

JACK COHEN was a British reproductive biologist who contributed more than 150 articles to scientific journals and popular magazines, including Nature. His books include Heaven, Wheelers and The Collapse of Chaos.

Cohen held a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology and was based for much of his career at Birmingham University before moving to Warwick University.

When not writing, Cohen worked as a consultant on biologically realistic alien design for science fiction writers and television shows, advising authors including Brian Aldiss, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. This expertise in realistic biology underpinned his co-written works with Ian Stewart and Terry Pratchett.

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Format: Hardcover