Exobiology: Bibliography: Part Two

Exobiology was the original term given to the sciences central to the question of life-in-the-Universe. It’s now been largely replaced by Astrobiology, but I’ll stick with the original. To investigate life-in-the-Universe one needs a solid grounding in the relevant literature. A comprehensive relevant bibliography would run to many thousands of pages and be rather off-putting. So, perhaps something on a slightly smaller scale might be more in order to help the novice get started. 

For something that doesn’t yet exist, extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise, has hatched a massive amount of literature, both technical and popular, in English and otherwise. There are speculative books, articles, documentaries, etc. that number in the tens of thousands. Add the sci-fi contributions into the mix, and you have tens of thousands more entries. Here are just a few more samplings of some of the non-fictional monographs that have touched on some of the topics raised so far.

Further Readings: Intelligent Life on the Moon

Leonard, George H.; Somebody Else Is On the Moon; David McKay Company, Inc., New York; 1976: 

Wilson, Don; Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon; Dell, Publishing Co., Inc., New York; 1975: 

Wilson, Don; Secrets of Our Spaceship Moon; Sphere Books Limited, London; 1980:

Further Readings: Our Solar System

Brack, Andre & Clancy, Paul & Horneck, Gerda; Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System; Cambridge University Press, New York; 2005: 

Carle, Glenn C. & Huntington, Judith L. & Schwartz, Deborah E. (Editors); Exobiology in Solar System Exploration; NASA SP 512; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.; 1992:

Horowitz, Norman H.; To Utopia and Back: The Search for Life in the Solar System; W.H. Freeman and Company, New York; 1986: 

Ponnamperuma, Cyril (Editor); Chemical Evolution of the Giant Planets; Academic Press, Inc., New York; 1976:

Further Readings: Mars

DiGregorio, Barry E. & Levin, Gilbert V. & Straat, Patricia Ann; Mars: The Living Planet; Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, California; 1997: 

Goldsmith, Donald; The Hunt for Life on Mars; Dutton, New York; 1997:

Sawyer, Kathy; The Rock from Mars: A Detective Story on Two Planets; Random House, New York; 2006:

Further Readings: Intelligent Life on Mars

Carlotto, Mark J.; The Martian Enigmas: A Closer Look; North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California; 1991: 

Hoagland, Richard C.; The Monuments of Mars: A City On the Edge of Forever; North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California; 1987:

Further Readings: Europa & Titan

Greenberg, Richard; Europa, the Ocean Moon: Search for an Alien Biosphere for Life on Jupiter’s Ocean Moon; Springer- Praxis Books, New York; 2005:

Greenberg, Richard; Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter’s Ocean Moon; Copernicus Books/Praxis Publishing Ltd, New York; 2008:

Lorenz, Ralph & Mitton, Jacqueline; Titan Unveiled: Saturn’s Mysterious Moon Explored; Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey; 2008:

Further Readings: The Rare Earth Hypothesis

Brownlee, Donald & Ward, Peter D.; Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe; Copernicus Books, New York; 2000:

Further Readings: Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Gould, Stephen Jay; Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History; Vintage, London: 2000: 

Morris, Simon Conway; The Crucible of Creation; Oxford University Press, New York; 1998:

Morris, Simon Conway; Life’s Solution: Inevitable Humans In A Lonely Universe; Cambridge University Press, New York; 2003:

Seielstad, George A.; At the Heart of the Web: The Inevitable Genesis of Intelligent Life; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, Boston; 1989:

Further Readings: SETI

Davies, Paul; The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe?;

Allen Lane, London

; 2010:

Drake, Frank & Sobel, Dava; Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; Delacorte Press; New York; 1992: 

McConnell, Brian; Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations; O’Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, California; 2001:

McDonough, Thomas R.; The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening for Life in the Cosmos; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York; 1987:

SETI Institute Science & Technology Working Group; SETI 2020: A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; SETI Press, Mountain View, California; 2002:

Shostak, Seth; Confessions of An Alien Hunter: A Scientist’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; National Geographic, Washington, D.C.; 2009:

Further Readings: Exploration and Colonization of Interstellar Space

Gilster, Paul; Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration; Copernicus Books, New York; 2004:

Macvey, John W.; Interstellar Travel: Past, Present, and Future; Stein and Day, New York; 1977:

Further Readings:  The Fermi Paradox

Hart, Michael H. & Zuckerman, Ben (Editors); Extraterrestrials: Where Are They?; Pergamon Press, N.Y.; 1982:

Hart, Michael H. & Zuckerman, Ben (Editors); Extraterrestrials: Where Are They? [2^nd edition]; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1995:

Verma, Surendra; Why Aren’t They Here? The Question of Life on Other Worlds; Icon Books, Cambridge; 2007:

Webb, Stephen; Where Is Everybody? Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life; Copernicus Books, N.Y.; 2002:

Further Readings: Ancient Astronauts

Blumrich, Josef F.; The Spaceships of Ezekiel; Bantam Books, New York; 1974: 

Castle, Edgar W. & Thiering, Barry B. (Joint Editors); Some Trust in Chariots!!; Westbooks, Perth, W.A.; 1972:

Daniken, Erich von; Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved Mysteries of the Past; G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York; 1969:

Daniken, Erich von; Gods from Outer Space: Return to the Stars or Evidence for the Impossible; G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York; 1971:

Daniken, Erich von; In Search of Ancient Gods: My Pictorial Evidence for the Impossible; Souvenir Press, London; 1974:

Downing, Barry H.; The Bible & Flying Saucers; Avon Books, New York; 1968:

Drake, W. Raymond; Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient East; Sphere Books, London; 1974:

Drake, W. Raymond; Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient West; Sphere Books, London; 1974:

Norman, Eric; Gods Demons and UFOs; Lancer Books, New York; 1970:

Story, Ronald; Guardians of the Universe?; New English Library, London; 1980: 

Story, Ronald; The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Daniken; Harper & Row, New York; 1976: 

Temple, Robert K.G.; The Sirius Mystery; Sidgwick & Jackson, London; 1976:

Wilson, Clifford; Crash Go the Chariots; Lancer Books, New York; 1972:

Wilson, Clifford; The Chariots Still Crash; Signet, New York; 1975:

Wilson, Clifford; The War of the Chariots; S. John Bacon, Melbourne, Victoria; 1978: