Extraterrestrial Life. From Molecule to Mind

This book can be useful for both people interested in science and those who are interested in fiction and wish to assess the plausibility of worlds born from the imagination of writers, directors, and game developers. For science has long... provided such an opportunity.
Academic concepts of extraterrestrial conditions, of course, are not complete - they are, in fact, only being formed thanks to the avalanche of information provided by modern space telescopes - but they are already sufficient to draw boundaries between the possible and the impossible.
The development of life from its inception to the era of interstellar flights (which has yet to come on Earth) follows sufficiently simple and largely understood patterns.
It is aimed at a wide audience.