- ISBN: 9780471268895 | 0471268895
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/2002
"A fascinating and useful handbook to both the science and science fiction of extraterrestrial life. Cohen and Stewart are amusing, opinionated, and expert guides. I found it a terrific and informative piece of work–nothing else like it!"<BR> –Greg Bea <P>"I loved it."<BR> –Larry Nive <P> "Ever wonder about what aliens could be like? The world authority is Jack Cohen, a professional biologist who has thought long and hard about the vast realm of possibilities. This is an engaging, swiftly moving study of alien biology, a subject with bounds and constraints these authors plumb with verve and intelligence."<BR> –Gregory Benfor <P>"A celebration of life off Earth. A hearteningly optimistic book, giving a much-needed antidote to the pessimism of astrobiologists who maintain that we are alone in the universe–a stance based on a very narrow view of what could constitute life. A triumph of speculative nonfiction."<BR> –Dougal Dixon, author of <BR> After Man: A Zoology of the Futur