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Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth Audiobook
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected.”
—Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star.
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization.
In Extraterrestrial, Loeb takes readers inside the thrilling story of the first interstellar visitor to be spotted in our solar system. He outlines his controversial theory and its profound implications: for science, for religion, and for the future of our species and our planet. A mind-bending journey through the furthest reaches of science, space-time, and the human imagination, Extraterrestrial challenges readers to aim for the stars—and to think critically about what’s out there, no matter how strange it seems.
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“Part graceful memoir and part plea for keeping an open mind about the possibilities of what is out there in the universe…[from] one of the more imaginative and articulate scientists around.”
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“A tantalizing, probing inquiry.”
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"[A] thought-provoking work of popular science.”
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“Provocative and thrilling…Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected.”
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“Will provoke you to think about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe in new and stimulating ways.”
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“In this passionately argued, visionary book, astrophysicist Avi Loeb urges us to abandon the arrogant fantasy that we are the only sentient life form in the universe…The clues, as Loeb carefully reviews them, are fascinating.”
— Stephen Greenblatt, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author
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A Publishers Marketplace Pick of Buzz Books
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New York Times bestseller
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#1 Amazon bestseller
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Longlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
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A Wall Street Journal bestseller
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About Avi Loeb
Abraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy, founding director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative, and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He also chairs the advisory committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative and serves as the science-theory director for all initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, as well as chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the National Academies. He is author of four books and over 700 scientific papers and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In 2012, Time selected him as one of the twenty-five most influential people in space.
About Robert Petkoff
Robert Petkoff is an actor and audiobook narrator who has won a prestigious Audie Award and multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice. He has appeared on Chappelle’s Show, Law & Order, and Quantum Leap. His Broadway credits include Sir Robin in Spamalot, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, and Tateh in Ragtime.