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The year 1990 marks the 30th anniversary of the federally funded Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program. This has spawned a number of books on the topic, including First Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence , edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss, and David W. Swift's SETI Pioneers (both LJ 4/1/90). White's study complements these two titles, but takes more of a social science approach. He examines how scientists need to frame this particular research question, how various creation and contact myths have evolved, what the probabilities of contact are, and what the immediate and long-term impacts of contact on human belief systems are. Various appendixes complete the volume. Recommended for collections where SETI books prove popular
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