"This wonderful multinational and multidisciplinary collection of essays is greater than the sum of its fascinating parts. It provides a rich and coherent examination of the place of outer space in the western imagination, in its extraordinary variety. Crystalline aliens, a mysterious Siberian explosion, silicon-based life forms, Tintin,Thunderbirds,Star Trek, and Raëlians are just some of the many things which are examined in a brilliantly eclectic series of essays."
