ISBN10: 0553371339, ISBN13: 9780553371338, [publisher: Random House Publishing Group] Softcover 300 pages. Cover wornThe bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way delivers fascinating essays on the human mind, t he search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, comet strikes as a source of species extinction, near-death exper iences, apocalyptic prophecies, information theory, and the origi n of laughter.   Praise for The Mind's Sky   It is a joy to read The Mind's Sky. What a sense of humility in the face of mystery-t he spirit of Ulysses, as Tennyson put it, determined ‘to st rive, to seek, to find and not to yield'-and sense of poetry too! -John Archibald Wheeler, physicist, Princeton University   A few chapters into this wonderful book I suddenly realized that I was taking wider views of my own mind's sky than I have enjoyed in a long time. Ferris illuminates (among other matters) the mysteries of laughter, nirvana, common sense, and Joe Montana. He makes us think big thoughts.-Jonathan Weiner, author of The Next 100 Year s and Planet Earth One of our best and most imaginative writers, Timothy Ferris has never been afraid to tackle big themes. The M ind's Sky is a dazzling and provocative synthesis of inner and ou ter space. This book is sure to be as controversial as it is eleg ant.-Dennis Overbye, author of Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
[Wellington, New Zealand] [Publication Year: 1993]