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For anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, \\u201cAre we alone?\\u201d Sarah Scoles examines the science behind the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and its pioneer, Jill Tarter, the inspiration for the main character in Carl Sagan\\u2019s Contact.

Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren\\u2019t encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could\\u2015into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn\\u2019t stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes without giving much back.

Today, her computer\\u2019s screensaver is just the text \\u201cSO\\u2026ARE WE ALONE?\\u201d This question keeps her up at night. In some ways, this is the question that keep us all up at night. We have all spent dark hours wondering about our place in it all, pondering our \\u201caloneness,\\u201d both terrestrial and cosmic. Tarter\\u2019s life and her work are not just a quest to understand life in the universe: they are a quest to understand our lives within the universe. No one has told that story, her story, until now.

It all began with gazing into the night sky. All those stars were just distant suns\\u2015were any of them someone else\\u2019s sun? Diving into the science, philosophy, and politics of SETI\\u2015searching for extraterrestrial intelligence\\u2015Sarah Scoles reveals the fascinating figure at the center of the final frontier of scientific investigation. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered if we are alone in the universe.

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