CAPTURED BY ALIENS

Reviewed 2/18/2004

Captured by Aliens, by Joel Achenbach

CAPTURED BY ALIENS
The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe
Joel Achenbach
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-684-84856-3
ISBN 0-684-84856-2 415p. HC/BWI $25.00

Table of Contents1

Part One: Adventures in the Unknown
1. Dialing Up Andromeda 13
2. The Goldin Age 24
3. The Biggest Unknown 33
4. Aliens in the Archives 43
5. The Gatekeeper 52
6. Space Age Blues 64
7. The Mars Effect 75
8. Course Correction 90
9. The Naysayers 101
10. The Savior 112
11. The Pillars of Creation 118
12. The Worm 128
13. Star Trekking 141
14. To Infinity and Beyond 149
Part Two: Visitors
15. A Different Vibration 163
16. Sagan Is Appalled 172
17. The Anomaly Problem 176
18. The Outer Limits 184
19. Hypnotized 195
20. Heaven's Gate 207
21. Roswell Crashes 217
22. The Hole in the Story 230
Part Three: Onward and Inward
23. Henry Reports the News 239
24. Forward Thinking 242
25. On to Mars 254
26. At the Flatirons 265
27. The Face 269
28. Silence in Green Bank 276
29. The Mystery Constraint 288
30. The Rules of Life 293
31. The Brain of an Alien 303
32. Death from Above 315
33. Goldin Sees God 329
34. Strange Futures 339
35. There Must Be More 347
36. Personal Journeys 355
Acknowledgements 371
Notes 373
Index 399
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