A New Book Will Explain Why The Universe Doesn’t Return Our Calls

A new anthology , coming fromDaw Booksin 2010 , will feature a clump of chronicle that provide different solution to the Fermi Paradox : If extraterrestrial life should be common , why do n’t we hear from it ?

Co - editorsNick GeversandMarty Halpernsold their anthology , Is Anybody Out There ? , to Daw Books viaMartin H. Greenberg‘s Tekno Books . And here ’s the anthology ’s auction pitch :

Our topic is the Fermi Paradox : Why is it that , in such a Brobdingnagian cosmos , with one C of billion of stars in this coltsfoot alone , and no doubt billions of Earth - similar planet orbit them , we have found no evidence of intelligent alien life sentence ? No grounds that foreigner have ever visited Earth ( other than damaged UFO mythology ) , no detectable signals in all our SETI searches with radio set scope … So : we ’re asking for entertain stories that explore explanations for this secret , looking seriously or comically at solutions to Fermi ’s question . Is intelligent lifespan a trematode , rebel only once or twice in the universe ’s long history ? Does intelligence arise often , but with gulfs of time and distance keeping technological civilizations irretrievably apart ? Do such civilizations inevitably go off or self - destruct within a few hundred years ? Is our definition of word fatally subjective ? Are aliens among us right now , unobserved ? Are there noncitizen everywhere , but determined not to allow us notice them ? These , or other hypotheses , no matter how unlikely , should inform contributions to IS ANYBODY OUT THERE ?

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