The Aliens Are Coming!, Ben Miller
The Aliens Are Coming!, Ben Miller
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The Aliens Are Coming!
The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe

Author: Ben Miller

Narrator: Ben Miller

Unabridged: 7 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2017


Synopsis

Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth?
 
For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets—scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. “Forget science fiction,” author Ben Miller writes. “We are living through one of the most extraordinary revolutions in the history of science: the emergent belief of a generation of physicists, biologists, and chemists that we are not alone.”
 
The Aliens Are Coming! is a refreshingly clear, hugely entertaining guide to the search for alien life. Miller looks everywhere for insight, from the Big Bang’s sea of energy that somehow became living matter, to the equations that tell us Earth is not so rare, to the clues bacteria hold to how life started. And he makes the case that our growing understanding of life itself will help us predict whether it exists elsewhere, what it might look like, and when we might find it.

About Ben Miller

Ben Miller is a writer and researcher living in Berlin, where he is currently a doctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History at the Freie Universitat. He has written for the New York Times, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Tin House, and is the author of The New Queer Photography. He is a member of the board of the Schwules Museum, a queer museum and archive.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

4.5 STARS! I had no idea that Ben Miller was such a brilliant guy! This is a well written informative and FUNNY book about the development of life on Earth and how it influences our search for life out in the stars. It's fascinating learning about the parameters needed for life to develop and how spe......more

Goodreads review by Jake

Well, the first like 175 pages of this was riveting, I could not put it down. If you are looking for information on how scientists are trying to find or contact actual alien life (rather then just stories of abductions) this is the book for you. There were so many theories and experiments I was unaw......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

An informative, yet incredibly fun read. I ripped through it in a couple of big reading sessions. Highly recommended!......more

Goodreads review by Ash

I really enjoyed this book! It took such a deep and thorough look at the topic and was very well written. I really liked how the author considered his own experiences and historical experiences into the topic. My only complaint would be is I feel like it dragged on a little bit throughout the first ch......more