Author Marc Kaufman explores the journey scientists have taken in the search into life elsewhere in the cosmos. From deep inside gold mines in South Africa to the frozen climate of Antarctica and everywhere in between life on Earth exists.

Kaufman asks: “Doesn’t it seem unlikely that none – zero – of the trillions of planets now reasonably presumed to exist beyond our solar system have the ingredients and conditions needed to cobble together life, and the stability needed to allow life to evolve and grow more complex?”

You won’t see a movie made out of this book but it is a good read and will give you a nice overview of where the search for life and a good look at some of the challenges that search brings.  I rather enjoyed the book.

If you click the image you will go to an Amazon page where you can purchase the book if you are a mind to.  But wait, there’s more!  Sorry couldn’t resist, the review copy of the book will be the prize in the next bonus riddle so put those thinking caps on!

First Contact is a hardcover book, 224 pages and published by Simon and Schuster; First Edition April 5, 2011.

About the author Marc Kaufman