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) watery reimagining of the Oedipus

watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford

he shares insights gained from darkness and depression as well as fulfillment and joy

and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead

Francoise Hostalier

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) watery reimagining of the OedipusIn 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