Paul Clancy is a musician, writer, and rambler living in Austin, Texas. He is the owner of Clancy's Guitar School, where he's gotten to know hundreds of musicians across Texas over the years. His music has appeared on a wide variety of recordings by legandary guitarists such as Susan McDonald. He loves hanging out in nature with his beautiful wife, three stunningly smart kids, and six grandkids who are being trained to fight the robots in the next robot war. When he's not writing poetry or music, he is befriending the squirrels and birds in his backyard. This anthology brings together in one place his writings, drawings, and musings from the past fifty years.
Preface
Part I. The Imperative of Exploration: 1. Exploration as a metaphor
Part II. How Can We Know Life?: 2. The molecular basis of life on Earth
3. The limits to life
4. The transfer of life between planets
5. What are the signatures of life?
6. After the discovery/life as a cosmic phenomenon
Part III. The Search for Life Beyond Earth: 7. The prospects for long-duration human space-flight
8. Human exploration and the search for life
9. Interplanetary ethics
Part IV. The Cosmic Biological Imperative: 10. The key technologies for human planetary exploration
11. Exploration in space
12. Exploration in time
13. Prediction, imagination and the role of technology
Part IV. Our Cosmic Destiny: 14. Our cosmic destiny
Appendices
Index.
