Searching For Alien Life: Is Anyone out there? [Library Binding]

Dennis Brindell Fradin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 1997

Examines the history of our beliefs regarding extraterrestrial life and our continuing efforts to explore outer space.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 5-7--A sampling of early human attempts at space travel and astronomical observations leads readers to a thorough examination of recent and potential discoveries and the difficulties that need to be overcome. The vast distances between the sun and all other stars currently pose insurmountable problems for exploring the reaches of our solar system, yet theories involving "frozen" astronauts or generations of space colonists on a traveling station are proposed. Descriptions of UFO sightings throughout history open a lengthy discussion of the feasibility of our establishing contact with extraterrestrial life-forms through radio waves. Despite past discouraging results, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) plans to increase its scope to include Internet users, promising greater potential for useful evidence. Fradin stresses that even if life on Earth is found to be unique in the universe, this finding can be as dramatic as the alternative. This title includes impressive, current photographs, such as those of possible Martian fossil life-forms in a meteorite found on Earth and of the sensational Mars Pathfinder that landed on the Red Planet in 1997. A list of "Numbers, Measures, and Conversions" is appended and the list for further reading includes two CD ROMs. This is a fine and sensible adjunct to the myriad UFO and alien-abduction accounts, which present subjective experiences rather than scientific evidence.

Ann G. Brouse, Big Flats Branch Library, NY

Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Library Binding: 80 pages
• Publisher: 21st Century (December 9, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805045732
• ISBN-13: 978-0805045734
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,967,947 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"I have the time of my life as a children's author," says Dennis Brindell Fradin, prolific author of close to one hundred and fifty books. "I try not to let a day of the year go by without working." Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he earned a creative writing degree from Northwestern University, then taught elementary school for twelve years. In 1989, the National College of Education honored him as the Educator of the Year. He is married to writer Judith Bloom Fradin, who did the photo research on this book. They live in Evanston, Illinois and have three grown children.

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This review is from: Searching For Alien Life: Is Anyone out there? (Library Binding)

For the time, 12 years ago, 'current' photos were only about 2 years out of date. Although the background and history don't change, I am replacing this one on library shelves in favor of Space by Heather Dakota, the updated Isaac Asmimov series, and small chapters in texts from 2002 and later. Theoretical astronomy is hard enough to keep updated without this stuff taking up shelf space. There is a huge price war on this as well, that I fail to understand. Anything from $0.01 to over $100.00?