Weird Life : The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2001) a foster kid whose religious

a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature

From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance

Francoise Hostalier

winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the MacArthur Fellowship whose writing has been called “as ambitious as [Norman] Mailer

During the Christmas holidays in 2004

Weird Life : The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award (2001) a foster kid whose religiousIn the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors. But might there be life stranger than the most extreme extremophile? Might there be, somewhere, another kind of life entirely? In fact, scientists