SETI History & Contemporary Xenology

Note: This list began with references assembled by the History, Policy, & Ethics working group during the 2018 Making Contact workshop. See Dick (2018) for a 30-page list - cf. SETI Primer

Anton, Andreas and Michael Schetsche. Meeting the Alien: An Introduction to Exosociology, Springer VS Wiesbaden 2023

Ashkenazi, Michael. 2017.  *What We Know About Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Foundations of Xenology*. Switzerland: Springer.

Bertka, Constance, ed. 2009. *Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Billingham, John, Heyns, Roger, Milne David, et al. 1999. *Social Implications of the Detection of an Extraterrestrial Civilization*, Mountain View, CA.: SETI Press.

Billings, Linda. 1990.  “From the observatory to Capitol Hill,” *in* B. Bova and B. Preiss, eds., *First Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence*, New American Library.

Billings, Linda. 2012. Astrobiology and culture: the search for extraterrestrial life as “science,” *Astrobiology* 12(10).

Billings, Linda. 2015. “The Allure of Alien Life: Public and Media Framings of Extraterrestrial Life,’ in Dick (2015), pp. 308-323.

Capova, K. A. and Persson, E. 2018. “Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today: The White Paper on Societal Implications of Astrobiology Research in Europe.”

Crowe, Michael. J. 1986. *The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750-1900:  The idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dick, Steven J. 1996. *The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life      Debate and the Limits of Science*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dick, Steven  J. 2000. *Many Worlds:  The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life and the     Theological Implications*. Philadelphia: Templeton Press.

Dick, Steven J. 2012. “Critical Issues in the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of            *Astrobiology*,” *Astrobiology,*12, 906-927.

Dick, Steven J. 2015.  *The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dick, Steven J. 2018. *Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact*: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dick, Steven J. and Strick, J. E. 2004. *The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology*. New Brunswick: NJ Rutgers University Press.

Dominik, Martin, and J. C. Zarnecki. 2011. “The Detection of Extra-terrestrial Life and the Consequences for Science and Society,” *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A*, 369, 1936, 409-507: 503-504  http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1936.toc.

- Dominik, Martin and John C. Zarnecki. (eds.) *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.* (2011)

   • Dominik, Martin and John C. Zarnecki. “The detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science and society.” *Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences* 369 (2011): 499 - 507.
   
   • [Blumberg, Baruch S.](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Blumberg%2C+Baruch+S) 2011Astrobiology, space and the future age of discovery *Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.* **369** 508–515 [1](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0239)
   
   • [Cockell Charles S.](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Cockell%2C+Charles+S) 2011Life in the lithosphere, kinetics and the prospects for life elsewhere *Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.* **369** 516–537 [2](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0232)
   
   • [Ehrenfreund Pascale](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Ehrenfreund%2C+Pascale), [Spaans Marco](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Spaans%2C+Marco) and [Holm Nils G.](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Holm%2C+Nils+G) 2011The evolution of organic matter in space *Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**538–554 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0231**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0231)
   
   • [Morris, Simon Conway](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Morris%2C+Simon+Conway) 2011 Predicting what extra-terrestrials will be like: and preparing for the worst *Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**555–571 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0276**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0276)
   
   • [Drake Frank](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Drake%2C+Frank) 2011The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**633–643 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0282**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0282)
   
   • [Denning Kathryn](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Denning%2C+Kathryn) 2011Is life what we make of it?*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**669–678 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0230**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0230)
   
   • [Mayor Michel](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Mayor%2C+Michel), [Udry Stephane](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Udry%2C+Stephane), [Pepe Francesco](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Pepe%2C+Francesco) and [Lovis Christophe](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Lovis%2C+Christophe) 2011 Exoplanets: the quest for Earth twins *Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.* **369**572–581 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0245**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0245)
   
   • [Fridlund Malcolm](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Fridlund%2C+Malcolm) 2011Extra-terrestrial life in the European Space Agency’s Cosmic Vision plan and beyond*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**582–593 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0233
   
   • [Peters Ted](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Peters%2C+Ted) 2011The implications of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for religion*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**644–655 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0234**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0234)
   
   • [McKay Christopher P.](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/McKay%2C+Christopher+P) 2011The search for life in our Solar System and the implications for science and society*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**594–606 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0247**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0247)
   
   • [Almár Iván](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Alm%C3%A1r%2C+Iv%C3%A1n) and [Race Margaret S.](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Race%2C+Margaret+S) 2011Discovery of extra-terrestrial life: assessment by scales of its importance and associated risks*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**679–692 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0227**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0227)
   
   • [de Duve Christian](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/de+Duve%2C+Christian) 2011Life as a cosmic imperative?*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**620–623 [**https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0312**](https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0312)
   
   • [Othman Mazlan](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/author/Othman%2C+Mazlan) 2011Supra-Earth affairs*Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.***369**693–699 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0311
   

Dunér, David, E. Persson, and G. Holmberg, eds. *The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology*, special issue of *Astrobiology*, 12, pp. 901-1016.

Dunér, David, J. Parthemore, E. Persson, and G. Holmberg, eds. 2013. *The History and    Philosophy of Astrobiology: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life and the Human Mind*.   Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Fraknoi, Andrew 1988, “What if We Succeed: A Media Viewpoint” in Marx, G., ed.        *Bioastronomy: The Next Steps*(Kluwer Academic Publ.) [open access](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280982824_What_if_we_succeed_A_Media_Viewpoint)

Garber, S. J. 1999. “Searching for Good Science: The Cancellation of NASA’s SETI Program,” JBIS, 52, 3-12

Green, Jaime. *The Possibility of Life 2023*

Guthke, Karl. S.  1990. *The Last Frontier: Imagining other Worlds from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction*. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Haramia, Chelsea and Julia DeMarines. “An Ethical Assessment of SETI, METI, and the Value of Our Planetary Home” in Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, edited by Octavio Chon Torres, Ted Peters, Joseph Seckbach, and Russell Gordon. New York: Wiley Scrivener, 269-289 (2021)

Harrison, Albert A.  1997. *After Contact:  The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life*. New York: Plenum.

Harrison,  Albert. 2011. “After Contact – Then What?” in Paul Shuch, *Searching for        Extraterrestrial Intelligence: SETI Past, Present and Future.*  Chichester, UK:        Praxis.Shuch (2011), pp. 497-514.

Harrison, Albert A. and Kathleen Connell. 2001. *Workshop on the Societal Implications of Astrobiology*. Moffett Field:  NASA Ames Research Center.  Online at    http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/workshops/societal/

Huston, M. J., Wright, J. T. (2022). Seti In 2021. Acta Astronautica, (199), 166-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.06.007

Impey, Chris, Anna Spitz, and William Stoeger, eds. 2013. *Encountering Life in the Universe: Ethical Foundations and Social Implications of Astrobiology*Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Michaud, Michael A. G. 2007. *Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials*, New York: Copernicus.

Smith, Kelly C. 2017. “Hawking and the METI Hawks: right for the wrong reasons” in *Theology and Science 15(2):147-49*.

Traphagan, John W. 2015. *Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination: SETI at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Culture.* Heidelberg: Springer.

Traphagan, John W. 2016.  *Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds.*      Heidelberg: Springer.

Vakoch, Douglas. 2011. *Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence*. Albany: SUNY          Press.

Vakoch, Douglas, ed.  2013. *Astrobiology, History and Society:  Life Beyond Earth and the          Impact of Discovery*. Berlin-Heidelberg:  Springer-Verlag.

Vakoch, D. A. (Editor) 2014a. *Archaeology, anthropology, and interstellar communication*. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, History Program Office.

Vidal, Clément [***The Beginning and the End: The Meaning of Life in a Cosmological Perspective***](http://www.springer.com/astronomy/book/978-3-319-05061-4), 2014, Springer.

Walton, Lori and Stephane Dumas. 2015. “The History of the IAA SETI Permanent Committee – The Early Years.” IAC-15.

Wright, J. SETI in 2020, Acta Astronautica, Volume 190, 2022, 24-29 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2021.09.024.