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Synopsis
"[Making Contact] is written with tremendous energy...the book's real strength comes from its depiction of a strange, unreal world where astronomy, science fiction, psychology and politics all collide..." BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Today, her computer's screensaver is just the text "SO...ARE WE ALONE?" This question keeps her up at night. In some ways, this is the question that keep us all up at night. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, pondering our "aloneness," both terrestrial and cosmic. Tarter's life and her work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: they are a quest to understand our lives within the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now It all began with gazing into the night sky. All those stars were just distant suns--were any of them someone else's sun? Diving into the science, philosophy, and politics of SETI--searching for extraterrestrial intelligence--Sarah Scoles reveals the fascinating figure at the center of the final frontier of scientific investigation. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if we are alone in the universe.
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Review
An admiring, insightful biography. Scoles has done her homework, so readers will both understand and sympathize with Tarter, who has become an icon and role model despite pursuing a goal she knows she will never achieve.
Scoles shares the fantastic story of people willing to pursue a quixotic goal in the face of daunting odds.
Scoles--who has clear affection for her subject--highlights Tarter's tenacity. A detailed portrait of how the science sausage gets made.
Scoles's conversational style and cultural references will appeal to the readers of Wired magazine. Tarter emerges as both heroic and all too human. To paraphrase the poet Robert Browning, humanity's reach must exceed its grasp, or what are the heavens for?
About the Author
Sarah Scoles is a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SETI project. She lives in Denver, Colorado.
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- PublisherPegasus Books
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1681778025
- ISBN 13 9781681778020
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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