num_pages: 369
description: "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!"-Greg Bear"I loved it."-Larry Niven "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."-Gregory Benford"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."-Dougal Dixon, author of After Man: A Zoology of the Future
language: English
title: What Does a Martian Look Like? : The Science of Extraterrestrial Life
titlecomplete: What Does a Martian Look Like? : The Science of Extraterrestrial Life
genres: Biology, Science, Nonfiction, Aliens, Popular Science, Space, Evolution
ratings_count: 134
publisher: Ebury & Vermilion