Alien Biology

“With wit and brio, Frank separates current nonsense about aliens from the serious and fascinating search for extraterrestrial life.” —Carlo Rovelli, New York Times bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics From astrophysicist Adam Frank, a little book on the biggest questions...

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control...

Now a CW Original Series The Der Spiegel number #1 blockbuster bestseller about an intelligent life force that takes over the oceans and exacts revenge on mankind! Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic eyeless crabs poison Long Island’s water supply. Around the world, countries are beginning to...

“Eunice Wong’s measured pacing and mellow tones perfectly complement Nayler’s provocative exploration of memory, minds, and consciousness.” - Booklist "The theme of the nature of consciousness is equal parts intriguing, thrilling, and eerie. Best of all, it's always compellingly narrated...

A clinical psychiatrist explores the effects of DMT, one of the most powerful psychedelics known. A behind-the-scenes look at the cutting edge of psychedelic research. Provides a unique scientific explanation for the phenomenon of alien abduction experiences. From 1990 to 1995 Dr. Rick...

THE HIGHEST-FUNDED DEBUT NOVEL IN CROWDFUNDING HISTORY | A science fiction epic about a world where the internet grows from trees. Its rulers control billions without armies; they shape desire itself. One boy never logged in. | Audiobook narrated by Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the...

An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges. What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand...

They captured one alive. That was the mistake. The containment facility outside Manaus is a positive-pressure envelope built to keep a pathogen from getting out. What it was not designed for is a specimen that pours its own concrete, records its observations in resin and pheromone, and enters a maintenance state a virologist's protocol treats as cold storage. Dr. Constance Achterberg runs the forward biodefence element and needs the organism alive for the two answers the whole war has been about. Dr. Sunniva Halloran is reading the recovered log and does not yet know she is confidently ...

An elegant, text-only edition of the New York Times bestseller that’s been hailed as the definitive authority on…everything by Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of...

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene. Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of...

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . Alien Clay is a thrilling tale of alien encounter – from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. ‘Unputdownable’ – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study...

In these lively and fascinating essays, scientists from around the world weigh in on the latest advances in the search for intelligent life in the universe and discuss just what that might look like. Since 2000, science has seen a surge in data and interest on several fronts related to E.T...

The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014 An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014 A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff Pick In the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared to go against the establishment by proposing that Earth...

ALIENS ON EARTH The Terrifying Creatures Hidden in Our Oceans You don’t need to search the stars to find alien life. The most terrifying creatures on Earth are already here—lurking in the deepest parts of our oceans. Far below the sunlight, where pressure can crush steel and darkness never ends, strange lifeforms survive in ways that seem impossible. Fish with transparent heads. Squid with glowing eyes. Worms that eat bones. Creatures so bizarre they look like they came from another planet. In Aliens on Earth, descend into the mysterious world of the deep sea and discover the real ...

A New York Times–bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter For a long time, scientists have wondered how life has emerged from inanimate chemistry, and whether Earth is the only place where it exists...

Something impossible is resting on the Gulf shelf at ninety feet. Maya Reyes has dived this site forty-seven times. She has never seen anything like it. A formation of dark objects arranged in a perfect Fermat spiral. Forty of them, precisely placed on the carbonate substrate thirty miles offshore Fort Walton Beach. Not geological. Not biological. Not anything in any database Maya can find. When marine geologist Caleb Horowicz analyzes what Maya's brother Tommy brings back from the dive, the results are impossible: a quantum lattice running in three simultaneous orientations, with an ...

How can we prepare for an event that is literally beyond anything humanity has ever faced? Making Contact presents multiple perspectives on what no longer can be denied: UFOs and their occupants are visiting our world. The book answers questions which remain in the wake of the recent...

Centuries in the future, a ragtag alien salvage crew discovers a live human—once the most feared being in the galaxy, now on the brink of extinction—and realizes that the monster they've found needs their help to survive. In the aftermath of a galaxy-shattering war that left humanity all but...

From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA’s most vital and exciting missions to the Red Planet—a wondrous chronicle of unprecedented scientific discovery and the search for evidence of life on Mars. “There are...

Chapter 2: The Resonant Chart — Can a Pack Bond Defy the Laws of Physics? The hunt for the galaxy's greatest hidden treasure begins, but the key to finding it isn't found in a computer chip. It’s found in a heartbeat. Surviving on the Edge of Space Following their narrow escape from Station Meridian-4, human pilot Marcus and Lithari merchant Xylar are operating on a razor-thin margin. Aboard the cargo freighter Vanguard-6, they face a harsh reality: their resources are dwindling, and the traditional interstellar trade routes are controlled by ruthless mega-corporations. But inside their...