Life Beyond Us by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law & Susan Forest
Life Beyond Us by Julie Nováková, Lucas K. Law & Susan Forest (Editors)
English | 2023 | Science Fiction | 5.4 MB
How would first contact-on earth, in space, on another planet-transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrecognized sentience on Earth?
What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the depths of space? Or . . .
Life-beyond us.
Dive in as the European Astrobiology Institute presents fifty-four original SF Stories and Science Essays on life, from microbial to macro, from automatic to sagacious. Each speculative story is followed by a professional essay illuminating the scientific underpinnings of the story and providing a new window into the cutting-edge knowledge about exploration for life in the universe.
Hemlock on Mars – Eric Choi
The Dog Star Killer – Renan Bernardo
Titan of Chaos – G. David Nordley
Cloudskimmer – Geoffrey A. Landis
The Lament of Kivu Lacus – B. Zelkovich
Heavy Lies – Rich Larson
The World of Silver – Tomáš Petrásek
Spider Plant – Tessa Fisher
This is How We Save Them – Deji Bryce Olukotun
The Far Side of the Door – Premee Mohamed
Ranya’s Crash – Lisa Jenny Krieg (translated by Simone Heller)
Spiral – Arula Ratnakar
The Last Cathedral of Earth – in Flight – Tobias S. Buckell
The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery – Valentin D. Ivanov
Human Beans – Eugen Bacon
The Mirrored Symphony – D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Lumenfabulator – Liu Yang (translated by Ladon Gao)
Cyclic Amplification – Meaning Family – Bogi Takács
The Diaphanous – Gregory Benford
The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj – Brian Rappatta
Defective – Peter Watts
The Dangers We Choose – Malka Older
Third Life – Julie E. Czerneda
Forever the Forest – Simone Heller
Still as Bright – Mary Robinette Kowal
Devil in the Deep – Lucie Lukačovičová
Deep Blue Neon – Jana Bianchi
