The Sirens of Mars (Paperback)

With poetic precision, Sarah Stewart Johnson traces the history of our explorations of Mars, interlacing her personal journey as a scientist with tales of other seekers who have scoured the planet for signs of life. She shows how its story is also a story about Earth: it is a foil, a mirror, a tell-tale reflection of our own anxieties and yearnings to find -if we're lucky- that we're not alone.