Chapter 1 The Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Antiquity to 1900

Chapter 2 Early Modern ET, Reflexive Telescopics, and Their Relevance Today

Chapter 3 Extraterrestrial Life as the Great Analogy, Two Centuries Ago and in Modern Astrobiology

Chapter 5 The Relationship Between the Origins of Life on Earth and the Possibility of Life on Other Planets: A Nineteenth-Century Perspective

Chapter 6 Pioneering Concepts of Planetary Habitability

Chapter 7 The Twentieth Century History of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Major Themes and Lessons Learned

Chapter 8 The Creator of Astrobotany, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov

Chapter 9 Life Beyond Earth and the Evolutionary Synthesis

Chapter 10 The First Thousand Exoplanets: Twenty Years of Excitement and Discovery

Chapter 11 Extraterrestrial Life in the Microbial Age

Chapter 12 The Societal Impact of Extraterrestrial Life: The Relevance of History and the Social Sciences

Chapter 13 Cultural Resources and Cognitive Frames: Keys to an Anthropological Approach to Prediction

Chapter 14 The Detection of Extraterrestrial Life: Are We Ready?

Chapter 15 Impact of Extraterrestrial Life Discovery for Third World Societies: Anthropological and Public Health Considerations

Chapter 16 Impossible Predictions of the Unprecedented: Analogy, History, and the Work of Prognostication

Chapter 17 Mainstream Media and Social Media Reactions to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life

Chapter 18 Christianity’s Response to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life: Insights from Science and Religion and the Sociology of Religion

Chapter 19 Would the Discovery of ETI Provoke a Religious Crisis?