SETI Books

Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, by Brian S. McConnell
Recently SETI became a popular past time with the release of the SETIhome screen saver, which runs on more than 2 million PCs, analyzing data from the Arecibo radio telescope for signs of extraterrestrial life. This fascinating book explains how likely it is that we’ll find someone, just what kind of signals we’re looking for, and how we’d communicate if we found them. (UK )

Project Haystack: The Search for Life in the Galaxy, by Seti Institute, Carl Sagan
Are there intelligent civilizations in space? If they existed, how would they communicate with us? And how would we respond? This text, intended to be of interest to secondary students, explores such questions, providing a guide to the scale and structure of the Milky Way. (UK )

21st Century Complete Guide to Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), by World Spaceflight News
This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the complete story of NASA's work in the exciting field of astrobiology and related research, including SETI and the search for other planetary systems. Workshops at the Ames Research Center are highlighted, along with extensive coverage of major ongoing projects including important Discovery program missions, IPFF, Kepler, and Europa mission planning. Information and photography of Europa from the highly successful Galileo mission is included. NASA's new Origins program (which, as NASA states, covers "galaxies, stars, planets, and life) is described in detail. Nearly 12,000 pages of text and photos are presented in the easy-to-use Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

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