Jaime Green’s The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos is a scientific and cultural adventure through our ideas about extraterrestrial life and the cosmos, and we’re not only delighted to reveal the out-of-this-world cover above, we’re also giving SciFiNow readers a sneak peek!
The Possibility of Life traces the history of our understanding of what and where life in the universe could be, from Galileo and Copernicus through to our current tracking of exoplanets in the ‘Goldilocks zone’, where life akin to ours on Earth might exist. Along the way, Jaime Green studies insights from a long tradition of science fiction that uses imagination to extrapolate and construct worlds, in turn inspiring scientists and their research.
Bringing together expert interviews, cutting-edge astronomy, philosophical inquiry and pop culture touchstones ranging from A Wrinkle in Time to Star Trek, The Possibility of Life delves into our evolving conception of the cosmos to pose an even deeper question: what does it mean to be human?
We have to wait until next spring to delve into The Possibility of Life but until then, check out our extract from the book here.
Jaime Green is a science writer, essayist and series editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She received her MFA in Creative Non-fiction from Columbia University, and her writing has appeared in Slate, Popular Science, the New York Times Book Review, Catapult, Astrobites and elsewhere.
The Possibility of Life: Searching for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green will be released on 20 April 2023. Pre-order your copy here.
