Paul Gilster’s Centauri Dreams is one of the most knowledgable and interesting places to find commentary and discussion of topics related to space exploration, SETI and humanity’s future in space.

Here, in a three-part series of blog posts, he discusses EARTH IN HUMAN HANDS and in particular my treatment of SETI and how it relates to visions and challenges of our own future here on Earth, how we might find ET civilizations who have survived their own version of the Anthropocene, and how visions of our sustainable future dovetail with ideas about interstellar travel and communication. I love it when somebody reads my book and seems to really get it!

Part 1: SETI in the Anthropocene.

Part 2: Looking for ‘Technosignatures’

Part 3: The Starship in our Future.

 

A new review in the Daily KOS calls EARTH IN HUMAN HANDS  “A page-turning masterpiece of speculative nonfiction that will keep new and veteran science aficionados spellbound for hours at a time.”

Read the full review Here.

My new article in Nautilus, about our quest to know Venus, which may have for a long time been the other biosphere in our Solar System. We need new missions there!

Ron Sparkman, from UpportunityU interviews me over Skype about astrobiology, climate change, what to do if you want to study science, the human future, and EARTH IN HUMAN HANDS.

“Venus could have been habitable while life evolved on Earth”

This story describes a publication in Geophysical Research Letters on which I was co-author.
The punch line is that Venus may have been a habitable planet for much longer than we thought – possibly for most of its history!!

Read the whole story.