A review by anthonycamber
The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? by Paul C.W. Davies

3.0

This book has been on my to-read pile for some time, and as with many books about science it has suffered a little from the pace of progress. All of the Kepler mission's discoveries are in the book's future, for example. Not the book's fault, clearly, and in fact it's interesting to read knowing some things the author didn't.

I was surprised that Davies didn't touch on one possible reason for The Eerie Silence of his title: that we live in a simulation. It's a theory worth examination in a book such as this.

Otherwise, a good overview of SETI and the competing theories for the lay reader.