THE ALIENS ARE COMING!: THE EXCITING AND EXTRAORDINARY SCIENCE BEHIND OUR SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
Book ID/图书代码： 07980015B86305
English Summary/英文概要： Discover the fascinating and cutting-edge science behind the greatest question of all: is there life beyond Earth?
For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe. In the last few years, scientists have made huge strides towards answering that question. In The Aliens are Coming!, comedian and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes us on a fantastic voyage of discovery, from the beginnings of life on earth to the very latest search for alien intelligence.
What soon becomes clear is that the hunt for extra-terrestrials is also an exploration of what we actually mean by life. What do you need to kickstart life? How did the teeming energy of the Big Bang end up as frogs, trees and quantity surveyors? How can evolution provide clues about alien life? What might it look like? (Probably not green and sexy, sadly.)
As our probes and manned missions venture out into the solar system, and our telescopes image Earth-like planets with ever-increasing accuracy, our search for alien life has never been more exciting - or better funded. The Aliens are Coming! is a comprehensive, accessible and hugely entertaining guide to that search, and our quest to understand the very nature of life itself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 地球以外存在生物吗？现在就来探索这个问题背后迷人的尖端科技吧！
一直以来我们都在仰望星空，猜测自己是否是宇宙中唯一的生物。在过去的几年中，科学家们在这方面取得了长足的进步。本书中，喜剧演员、畅销书作者Ben Miller将带领我们踏上从地球生命的起源直到外星生物的最新搜索的奇妙发现之旅。
很明显，寻找外星人也是我们探索生命意义的方式。生命是如何开始的？宇宙大爆炸的能量是如何最终成为青蛙、树木和施工技术员的？进化能为外星生命提供什么线索？外星生命长什么样？
随着我们的探测器和载人任务不断地向太阳系金发，我们的望远镜更加准确地捕捉到其他星球的影像，外星生命的探索正在变得前所未有地令人兴奋。本书对这一探索过程和我们探寻生命本质的历程进行了全面的描绘，是一部浅显易懂又极具娱乐性的指南。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：A witty and informative romp through our search for little green men that says as much about human ingenuity as it does about the aliens we seek (DARA O BRIAIN)
An eclectic and entertaining story, weaving together space exploration, the evolution of life on Earth, the Drake Equation and Egyptian hieroglyphs. That’s non-trivial, as we say in physics, but Ben Miller manages it! (BRIAN COX)
About the Author/作者介绍： Ben Miller，演员、喜剧演员。出品了一部有关温度的“BBC地平线”纪录片和有关粒子物理学历史的Radio 4系列，并在《泰晤士报》定期撰写科学专栏。
Ben Miller is, like you, a mutant ape living through an Ice Age on a ball of molten iron, orbiting a supermassive black hole. He is also an actor, comedian and approximately one half of Armstrong & Miller. He’s presented a BBC Horizon documentary on temperature and a Radio 4 series about the history of particle physics, and wrote a regular science column in The Times. He is slowly coming to terms with the idea that he may never be an astronaut.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：we have sold American rights for a nice five-figure US $ sum (to The Experiment).
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