A compendium of information about the complex worlds captured in Brin's Nebula and Hugo Award-winning novels about the uplift universe and the various alien races that populate the series.
Morrison and Oliver believed that there would be no culture shock from detecting the first alien signal, which probably would be a beacon. ... Lee, too, thought that our destinies would merge with that of the more powerful civilization ...
This book explains how likely it is that someone will be found, what kind of signals are being looked for, and how to communicate with them.
"[Andrew J. H.] Clark and [David H.] Clark offer what are definitely the most thorough discussions about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence yet presented to the world community.
If elementary life forms are common throughout the cosmos, could intelligent beings have evolved elsewhere, and are they seeking us out? A father-and-son-team of scientists - both with research background...
Harvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star
"Excerpts from hypnotic sessions that created a platform for communication with non-earth beings." -- from back cover.
For me, this is a frustrating journey and yet rewarding. I knew the road would be difficult and that there would be ridicule, but I keep steadily moving forward. Included in the book are discussions with the aliens.
She begins by establishing telepathic contact with the beings in the spaceships she has seen throughout her life. ... At this point, when she begins to actively seek contact with the extraterrestrial visitors, the Zulu people emerge ...
Just fifty years later, wet rice agriculture and iron metallurgy suddenly appeared in Japanādevelopments that profoundly altered the Japanese economy ... Ellie thought that Qin made Alexander the Great a schoolyard bully by comparison.
" Waiting for Contact tells the story of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) movement, which emerged in 1959 as astronomers began using radio telescopes to listen for messages from space.