'LOEB IS AN ASTRONOMICAL SHERLOCK HOLMES ' Washington Post 'A JOY IN CONJECTURE AND AN
OMNIVOROUS SPIRIT OF INQUIRY. . . CARL SAGAN WOULD HAVE LIKED THIS BOOK' The Times In 2017
Avi Loeb Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department went public with a theory that shook the
scientific community - our solar system has been visited by advanced alien technology. His
provocative and persuasive argument (and internationally bestselling book Extraterrestrial )
has opened thousands of minds to the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. This book
tackles the huge question of what happens next ? Long the stuff of science-fiction here at
last is the science fact. From advances in deep space probes to ongoing searches for
extraterrestrial technology in our night sky through the latest heated debates over the
existence of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Interstellar offers a thrilling front-row view of
the technology and the ideas currently preparing us for contact with alien civilizations.
Providing the first realistic and practical blueprint for how that might actually occur
Professor Loeb lays out the profound implications of our becoming - or not becoming - an
interstellar species. In an urgent eloquent appeal for more proactive engagement with the
outer universe he powerfully contends why we must seek out other life forms and in the
process choose who and what we are within the universe. Combining cutting-edge science
physics and philosophy Loeb takes us on a mind-bending journey through the furthest reaches
of science space-time and the human imagination. Interstellar is an eye-opening necessary
look at our future that proves once again that scientific curiosity offers the key to our
survival. 'Loeb is surely correct. . . scientists studying the vastness of the cosmos should
entertain risky ideas more often for the universe is undoubtedly more wild and unexpected than
any extremes conjured by the human imagination' Economist 'A COMPELLING ARGUMENT FOR A MORE
OPEN-MINDED APPROACH TO SCIENCE - A COMBINATION OF HUMILITY AND WONDER' New Statesman
