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The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,677 ratings — published 2010
The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 350 ratings — published
Contact (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 155,057 ratings — published 1985
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,207 ratings — published 2023
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 5,628 ratings — published 2021
Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 128 ratings — published 2017
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,506 ratings — published 2002
Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 22 ratings — published 2001
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 964 ratings — published 2013
Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 343 ratings — published 2009
Intelligent Life in the Universe (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 376 ratings — published 1966
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,758 ratings — published 2024
The Little Book of Aliens (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,119 ratings — published
GREAT SILENCE:SCIENCE & PHILOSOPHY OF FERMIS PARADOX (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 83 ratings — published
Extraterrestrial Civilizations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 893 ratings — published 1979
Interstellar: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Our Future in the Stars (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.50 — 648 ratings — published 2023
Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 43 ratings — published 2000
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
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avg rating 3.79 — 756 ratings — published 2018
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 521,705 ratings — published 2006
SETI 2020: A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 2002
The Aliens Are Coming! The Exciting and Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as seti)
avg rating 3.93 — 581 ratings — published 2016
Cosmic Company: The Search for Life in the Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 2003
SETI Pioneers: Scientists Talk about Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1990
Are We Alone? Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 325 ratings — published 1995
Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life – A Planetary Scientist's Guide to Astrobiology, NASA, and Our Cosmic Quest for Connection (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 287 ratings — published 2003
Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 87 ratings — published 1992
First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 139 ratings — published 2011
Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It? (Popular Astronomy)
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avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published 2014
The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,262 ratings — published 2006
Civilizations Beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published 2007
After Contact (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published 1997
Life Everywhere: The New Science Of Astrobiology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 2001
The Palomar Paradox: A SETI Mystery (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2011
Faint Echoes, Distant Stars: The Science & Politics of Finding Life Beyond Earth (paper)
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avg rating 3.60 — 60 ratings — published 2004
Why Aren't They Here: The Question of Life on Other Worlds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 24 ratings — published 2004
Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,213 ratings — published 1973
First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 65 ratings — published 2025
The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
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avg rating 3.59 — 8,512 ratings — published 2023
The Hercules Text (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,332 ratings — published 1986
Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 132 ratings — published 2025
Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center, #2)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,819 ratings — published 1984
In the Ocean of Night (Galactic Center, #1)
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avg rating 3.62 — 3,781 ratings — published 1977
Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 782 ratings — published 2017
THE WONDROUS WORLDS OF THE EXOPLANETS (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published
Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,307 ratings — published 2015
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,587 ratings — published 1977
The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 713 ratings — published
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 83,631 ratings — published 1996
“In other words, what were the chances that ours is the only civilization ever? Putting in the exoplanet data, we found the answer to be 10 –22 , or one in ten billion trillion.
We called this number the “pessimism line"
To understand how to think about the pessimism line, imagine you were handed a very big bag of Goldilocks-zone planets.
Our results say the only way human beings are unique as a civilization-building species would be if you pulled out ten billion trillion planets and not one of them had a civilization.
That’s because Kepler has shown us that there must be ten billion trillion Goldilocks-zone planets in the universe.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
We called this number the “pessimism line"
To understand how to think about the pessimism line, imagine you were handed a very big bag of Goldilocks-zone planets.
Our results say the only way human beings are unique as a civilization-building species would be if you pulled out ten billion trillion planets and not one of them had a civilization.
That’s because Kepler has shown us that there must be ten billion trillion Goldilocks-zone planets in the universe.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
“In other words, pretty much every star you see in the night sky hosts at least one planet.
The next time you find yourself outside at night, take a moment to stop and consider the implications of this result as you gaze at all those pinpricks of light.
Every one of them hosts at least one world, and most stars will have more than one planet. Solar systems are the rule and not the exception. They’re everywhere.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
The next time you find yourself outside at night, take a moment to stop and consider the implications of this result as you gaze at all those pinpricks of light.
Every one of them hosts at least one world, and most stars will have more than one planet. Solar systems are the rule and not the exception. They’re everywhere.”
― Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
