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[Billings] narrates his own writing with a sense of wonder, making the search for life something that's human, not a mess of scientific calculations.-- AudioFile Billings performs a brilliant sleight of hand...the ending is a poignant reminder that humankind may yet find a way to the stars, but people--the ones we know, the ones we love, the ones we lose--are our entire history and our full universe. -- Washington Post Graceful...the best book I have read about exoplanets, and one of the few whose language approaches the grandeur of a quest that is practically as old as our genes. -- New York Times Book Review The search for Earthlike worlds orbiting distant stars is just a step in the age-old quest to learn whether or not we are alone in the universe. In his compelling, wide-ranging survey, Billings steps back to look at this broader picture, largely through richly textured portraits of some of the giants of the field...[an] extraordinary tale of scientific discovery. -- Scientific American Will leave readers who aren't rocket scientists slack-jawed. -- New York Times

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Lee Billings is a science writer whose work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, and Popular Mechanics, among other publications. He lives in New York. Lee Billings is a science writer whose work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, and Popular Mechanics, among other publications. He lives in New York.

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