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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Paperback in almost as-new condition; minor shelfwear only; contents clean, sound, bright. TPW. Used.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: NEW. Ernst Haeckel (illustrator). Limited Illustrated edition. NEW, Laksa Media Groups, 2023, 642 pages,This special limited Kickstarter edition of the book is adorned by interior artwork consisting of 19th century naturalist Ernst Haeckel's beautiful and mesmerizing illustrations of life on Earth. -- Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays is a joint partnership between European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) and Laksa Media Groups, Canada. The anthology addresses strange new worlds here on Earth and beyond ours. Each story is accompanied by a companion essay (written by scientists working on the origins of life, habitability and life detection) about the science behind the world that the authors have included in their stories. 54 Original SF Stories and Science Essays from leading science fiction authors and scientists on alien life here and beyond. Twenty-two brilliant SF authors of various backgrounds and perspectives will transport you to the strangest places on our own planet as well as far beyond it in the galaxy and create worlds that can be filled with fantastic stories and also reflect our understanding and speculation of such places. Each story is followed by a short popular science essay exploring the fantastic and yet really imaginable topic introduced in the story, be it life in Titan's hydrocarbon seas, strange carbon planets, conundrums presented by the Fermi Paradox and so much more. We're delighted that so many wonderful authors of science fiction, both long-famous and just coming into the spotlight, have agreed to contribute a story to Life Beyond Us. We're proud to include works by Mary Robinette Kowal, Peter Watts, Premee Mohamed, Gregory Benford, Tobias S. Buckell, Julie E. Czerneda, Malka Older, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Rich Larson, DA Xiaolin Spires, Stephen Baxter, Geoffrey A. Landis, Eric Choi, Bogi Takács, Eugen Bacon, Tessa Fisher, Arula Ratnakar, Lucie Luka?ovi?ová, G. David Nordley, Tomá Petrásek, Valentin Ivanov and Simone Heller. Twenty-two brilliant SF authors of various backgrounds and perspectives will transport you to the strangest places on our own planet as well as far beyond it in the galaxy and create worlds that can be filled with fantastic stories and also reflect our understanding and speculation of such places. Each story is followed by a short popular science essay exploring the fantastic and yet really imaginable topic introduced in the story, be it life in Titan's hydrocarbon seas, strange carbon planets, conundrums presented by the Fermi Paradox and so much more. Like all readers, we're tired of SF that just endlessly lectures, and rest assured that Life Beyond Us will contain stories that are first of all brilliant stories full of lifelike characters, able to make you hold your breath until you reach the last sentence. This special limited Kickstarter edition of the book is adorned by interior artwork consisting of 19th century naturalist Ernst Haeckel's beautiful and mesmerizing illustrations of life on Earth, often stranger than most aliens we can imagine.