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Series: Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe

Founding Editor(s): Richard Gordon and Joseph Seckbach

Series Editor(s): Martin Beech

Advisory Board:
Richard Gordon, Gulf Specimen Marine Lab & Aquarium, Panacea, Florida.
George Mikhailovsky, President and CEO of Global Mind Share, Norfolk, USA.

Scope: In his 1687 book Principia Isaac Newton showed how a body launched atop a tall mountain parallel to the ground would circle the Earth. We are both old enough to have witnessed the realization of this dream in the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Since then our ability to enter, view and understand the Universe has increased dramatically. A great race is on to discover real extraterrestrial life, and to understand our origins, whether on Earth or elsewhere. We take part of the title for this new series of books from the pioneering thoughts of Svante Arrhenius, who reviewed this quest in his 1909 book The Life of the Universe as Conceived by Man from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time.

Astrobiology Perspectives on Life of the Universe volumes will each delve into an aspect of this adventure, with chapters by those who are involved in it, and careful observers and assessors of our progress. Guest editors will be invited from time to time, and all chapters will be peer reviewed.

About the Series Editor(s):
Martin Beech, PhD is Professor Emeritus at the University of Regina, and Campion College, Saskatchewan, Canada. He has conducted and published research in the many areas of astronomy, planetary science, and the history of science. His main astronomy research interests are in the area of small solar system bodies (asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and meteorites).
E-mail: Martin.Beech@uregina.ca

Submission to the series:

Published and Forthcoming Titles


 
Geoengineering and Climate Change
Methods, Risks, and Governance
Edited by Martin Beech
Copyright: 2025   |   Status: Contracted   |   Expected Pub Date:2024/10/30   |   Hardcover


 
Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe
Edited by Alexei Sharov and George Mikhailovsky
Copyright: 2024   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The book explains why meaning is a part of the universe populated by life,
and how organisms generate meanings and then use them for creative
transformation of the environment and themselves.


 
Origin of Life via Archaea
Shaped Droplets to Archaea First with a Compendium of Archaea Micrographs
By Richard Gordon
Copyright: 2024   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This book surveys the models for the origin of life and presents a new model starting with shaped droplets and ending with life as polygonal Archaea; it collects the most published micrographs of Archaea (discovered only in 1977), which support this conclusion, and thus provides the first visual survey of Archaea.


 
Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life
Edited by Stoyan K. Smoukov, Joseph Seckbach, Richard Gordon
Copyright: 2023   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life provides a forum to compare and contrast the many hypotheses that have been put forward to explain the origin of life.


 
Terraforming Mars
Edited by Martin Beech, Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon
Copyright: 2022   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This book provides a thorough scientific review of how Mars might eventually be colonized, industrialized, and transformed into a world better suited to human habitation.


 
Technosignatures for Detecting Intelligent Life in Our Universe
A Research Companion

Edited by Anamaria Berea
Copyright: 2022   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This book shows the current state of the research in the field of technosignatures, presenting novel ideas from economics, forecasting, and data sciences, making it an ideal research compendium for scientists.


 
Extremophiles as Astrobiological Models
Edited by Joseph Seckbach and Helga Stan-Lotter
Copyright: 2021   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
The search for extraterrestrial life is concentrating on extremophiles because of their unusual properties; this book presents new data of microorganisms tolerating harsh living conditions which enlarge the knowledge of living beings.


 
Planet Formation and Panspermia
New Prospects for the Movement of Life through Space
Edited by Branislav Vukotic, Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon
Copyright: 2021   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
An in-depth view of the panspermia hypothesis examined against the latest knowledge of planetary formation and related processes.


 
Astrobiology
Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

Edited by Octavio A. Chon Torres, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon
Copyright: 2021   |   Status: Published   |   Hardcover
 
This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, social impact, religious meaning, and public policy formulation.