Tom Holland

To earth from heaven

Two new books on astrobiology convince Tom Holland that non-specialists are the only sane people on the subject

  • All These Worlds Are Yours: The Scientific Search for Alien Life

    Jon Willis

    Yale, pp. 214

  • Aliens: Science from the Other Side

    Jim Al-Khalili (edited)

    Profile, pp. 214

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