Evolving the Alien Best Read || [Jack Cohen Ian Stewart] - Evolving the Alien, Evolving the Alien What would life on other planets look like Forget little green men alien life is likely to be completely unrecognizable This text offers radical but scientifically accurate thinking on the possibilit
- Title: Evolving the Alien
- Author: Jack Cohen Ian Stewart
- ISBN: 9780091879273
- Page: 499
- Format: Hardcover
Evolving the Alien Best Read || [Jack Cohen Ian Stewart], Evolving the Alien, Jack Cohen Ian Stewart, Evolving the Alien What would life on other planets look like Forget little green men alien life is likely to be completely unrecognizable This text offers radical but scientifically accurate thinking on the possibility of life on other planets Evolving the Alien Best Read || [Jack Cohen Ian Stewart] - Evolving the Alien, Evolving the Alien What would life on other planets look like Forget little green men alien life is likely to be completely unrecognizable This text offers radical but scientifically accurate thinking on the possibilit
- Evolving the Alien Best Read || [Jack Cohen Ian Stewart]499Jack Cohen Ian Stewart
A bit disappointing Cohen and Stewart are professional scientists, respectively biologist and mathematician They have some strong opinions about what they consider the traditional discussions of possible extraterrestrial life and in the early chapters come on a bit too combatively, then back off in later pages They take easy swipes at Star Trek style humanoids, and at conservatism among professional exobiologists , whom they accuse of being astronomers trying to practise biology without a licenc [...]
I hated this book Perhaps its because I was expecting all science, some discussion on what might evolve in different enviroments Now I know that we don t know, and have no good guess What this book turned out to be is criticism of science fiction I might have been fine with that if they seemed impartial, and talked about plausibility of each fictional world, but it seemed to me that if they were consulted the science fiction was fabulous, if they were not it was bad Another thing they went on an [...]
What does a Martian Look Like sets out to do something seemingly impossible to scientifically describe something we have never seen The question it asks is what we can know about extraterrestrial life Of course, we have never found any of that And yet, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart also argue against imagining it will be just like life on Earth.So what can they even say in this book Mainly that we need to speculate, but speculate wisely taking into account all that we really know, and seeing what f [...]
If you can overlook the pop science y title, and can humour the authors on a few relatively harmless indulgences an overeagerness to point out sci fi mistakes quirky, disposable passages of fiction at the start of each chapter , this is a fascinating read.Stewart and Cohen use their combined biological and mathematical expertise to offer some well researched and justified optimism Life, they argue, ought to emerge from any complex chemistry And complex chemistry is effectively just a matter of s [...]
Good writers, good rhetoric Anyone can appreciate a relaxed but knowledgeable approach to a subject unlike certain irritable facets of society we can imagine.Slowish to start, with some unique peices of information but nothing to interest the academics, skip to chapters 5 or 6.This book is quite worthwhile for beginner science fiction writers and will help develop their thinking in many ways.
I loved this book It s an interesting, thorough, thoughtful look at what alien life might be like, with the added bonus of discussing examples from sci fi thus expanding my booklist While I disagreed with the authors sometimes, that made it all the fun to try and poke holes in their arguments.
This was hard going I was expecting of a guide for writers It certainly gives me something to think about Many of the ideas are complicated I admit I was lost in places A good read for the scientifically minded.
I chose this book to help me design an extraterrestrial species in a book I m writing It was not much help in that regard, but did have some interesting thoughts on the possibilities and makeup of extraterrestrial life.
Highly refinded brain fuel, this book contains a little philosophy, a lot of science, and an inexpliciable disdain of koalas.
Lots of fun but I could have done with even in depth and greater explanation as to why this,that and other might be possible but I m still going to buy it and read it again
Enormously enjoyable so far.