Publication:XTRTRRSTRL1994
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Summary
This publication could be classified as speculative science non-fiction as it has chapters on what aliens in various environments could be like. The environments are explained by first showing the type of star needed, what size and how far away from the star the host planet needs to be, and ideas on what the resulting life forms would look like. The author's goal was to construct environments that were close to what we have on Earth but to have a much lighter or heavier gravity, a glaciated world, an ocean world, a jungle world, or a gas giant such as Jupiter. The Dinoman chapter examines what could have happened had Earth's dinosaurs not been wiped out by the Chicxulub meteorite impact and that the Stenonychosaurus dinosaur had continued to evolve.
Contents
- Are We Alone?
- Moon Men from 1902
- Hollywood Aliens
- Ugly and Probably Drooling
- Close Encounters and UFOs
- The Search for Martians: 1
- The Search for Martians: 2
- Titan and Europa
- How Planets are Born
- The Range of Worlds
- The Moon and Life
- Emergence of Intelligence
- Brains and Bodies
- Dinoman
- Alien Senses: 1
- Alien Senses: 2
- Somebody's Uncle
- Low-Gravity Planet
- High-Gravity Planet
- Glaciated World
- Ocean World
- Jungle World
- Atmospheric Life
- Life as We Don't Know It: 1
- Life as We Don't Know It: 2
- Reaching Across the Abyss
- Contact!
- Index
- Further Reading
Further Reading
The Further Reading section on page 62 lists:
Science Fact
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Thomas R. McDonough (Wiley, 1987)
- "Life Search" by the editors of Time-Life Books
- Life in Darwin's Universe by Gene Bylinsky (Doubleday, 1981)
- "Life Beyond Earth" by Gerald Feinberg and Robert Shapiro (Morrow, 1980)
- "First Contact" by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss (Penguin/Plume, 1990)
- "The Universe and Beyond" by Terence Dickinson (Camden House, revised edition, 1992)
- "Science Goes to the Movies" by Jack Weyland (article in Science Year 1994, supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia)
Science Fiction
- The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
- Catseye by Andre Norton
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Deathworld by Harry Harrison
- Chocky by John Wyndham
- Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement
- Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany
- Hospital Station by James White
- The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
- The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
- The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke