Sign in with Facebook
Fermi Paradox Books
Showing 1-50 of 88
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.40 — 212,761 ratings — published 2008
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.41 — 166,170 ratings — published 2010
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.08 — 478,189 ratings — published 2006
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,995 ratings — published 2000
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.01 — 52,615 ratings — published 2006
The Great Silence: Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.96 — 78 ratings — published
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,448 ratings — published 2002
The Thing Itself (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,820 ratings — published 2015
Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.23 — 125,023 ratings — published 2014
Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.28 — 151,307 ratings — published 2013
Aurora (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,505 ratings — published 2015
Space (Manifold, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,300 ratings — published 2000
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,644 ratings — published 2010
Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,154 ratings — published 2002
Absolution Gap (Revelation Space, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.02 — 24,955 ratings — published 2003
Alien UFOs and the Heliosphere: Decoding the Cosmic Puzzle of Alien Life and Our Place Among the Stars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.92 — 38,807 ratings — published 2003
House of Suns (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.24 — 32,082 ratings — published 2008
Transition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.87 — 11,417 ratings — published 2009
Armada (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.56 — 127,290 ratings — published 2015
Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,936 ratings — published 2021
Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.54 — 68,221 ratings — published 2021
Catalyst Gate (The Protectorate, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,660 ratings — published 2021
Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.98 — 295 ratings — published 2011
The Reality Dysfunction 2: Expansion (Night's Dawn 1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,642 ratings — published 1996
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,932 ratings — published 2005
The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.12 — 37,898 ratings — published 1996
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,618 ratings — published 2019
Chaos Vector (The Protectorate, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,416 ratings — published 2020
Slow Bullets (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.61 — 5,230 ratings — published 2015
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.23 — 53,380 ratings — published 2004
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.07 — 72,685 ratings — published 1974
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,950 ratings — published 2016
Edges (Inverted Frontier, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,610 ratings — published 2019
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,848 ratings — published 2015
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.40 — 157,371 ratings — published 1980
Solving Fermi's Paradox (Cambridge Astrobiology, Series Number 10)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
The Exoplanet Handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.27 — 15 ratings — published 2011
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.38 — 84,978 ratings — published 2017
Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.45 — 16,985 ratings — published 2018
Gate Crashers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.81 — 960 ratings — published 2018
Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.39 — 179,181 ratings — published 2012
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.31 — 312,042 ratings — published 2011
A Meeting with Medusa / Green Mars (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.63 — 612 ratings — published 1988
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.15 — 151,348 ratings — published 1985
The Engines of God (The Academy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,209 ratings — published 1994
Diaspora (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,976 ratings — published 1997
Accelerando (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,137 ratings — published 2005
The Drake Equation: Estimating the Prevalence of Extraterrestrial Life through the Ages (Cambridge Astrobiology, Series Number 8)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2015
The World of Null-A (paper)
by (shelved 1 time as fermi-paradox)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,810 ratings — published 1945
“It is triste to contemplate the winding down of the Universe into a cold, dark, lonely place, but we are a young species in a young Universe, with vast reaches of time before us. It is certainly true that there are countless worlds out there that could support life as we know it, and probably countless more that could support life as we don’t know it. It may be that the Universe is teeming with life waiting to make our acquaintance. Or, we may well be the first ones in our galaxy to make the leap to sentience. The vast distance between stars poses a severe barrier to individuals or even societies making the journey. Protoplasm is just too fragile and short-lived a medium to be up to the task of such voyaging. However, at a tenth the speed of light, the whole galaxy can be traversed in a million years. That’s a long time for protoplasm, but it is not a stretch to think of the data that makes us what we are—embodied perhaps in silicon or some other sturdy information-bearing material and reconstituted at destination—spreading throughout the galaxy, hopping from planet to planet along the way like Pacific Islanders in their canoes. If life—or complex life—is rare, it may well be our destiny to seed the Universe with an expanding wave of consciousness. But it is to be hoped that we will leave abundant worlds alone to develop their own destinies. There are worlds enough, and time.”
― Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
― Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
“We’re searching for intelligent, conscious, tool-making beings that have developed a language we’re capable of understanding. We’re searching for intelligent conscious, tool-making, communicative beings that live in social groups (so they can reap the benefits of civilization) and that develop the tools of science and mathematics.
We’re searching for ourselves . . .”
― If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
We’re searching for ourselves . . .”
― If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
