A Bibliography on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Few questions excite the human imagination as do: "Are we alone in the universe?" and, if we are not alone then, "Where are 'They'?" The concept of innumerable populated worlds in the universe has existed for millenia, but only in comparatively recent times has serious thought been given to how we might communicate with our presumed extraterrestrial neighbors. Willey Ley and Wernher von Braun note in their book, The ExplorationofMars (ref. 722), that the Pierre Guzman Prize of 100,000 francs was offered by the French Academy of Sciences in 1900 to "whoever succeeded in establishing communication with another world other than Mars." In 1900, communication with supposed intelligent beings on Mars was considered too easy to merit an award! Present scientific understanding holds little hope that advanced nonhuman intelligence exists elsewhere in this solar system (whales and porpoises, perhaps, excepted). If contact is to be made with other intelligence in the universe, man must bridge the gulf of interstellar space, which for the nearest stellar neighbor is 500,000 times larger than Earth's closest approach to the red planet. In this bibliography of 1488 references, the entries are ordered alphabetically by first author and are consecutively numbered. A topic index having the organization shown on pages 3 and 4 precedes the list of references. The universal appeal of the SETI problem has been overwhelmingly apparent from the international character of the expanding literature. People the world over are increasingly aware of the very real prospects for contacting other civilizations. Men widely debate the consequences of contact -some fear the prospect. The consequences of failure to detect signals may be even greater and may be an ominous portent for our civilization, but if signals from distant life are now beaming our way, sooner or later we will find them! Copy and paste the link for our books: https://saucerianbooks.blogspot.com/