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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Bergreen, Laurence. The Quest for Mars: the NASA Scientists and Their Search for Life Beyond Earth. London: HarperCollins 2000 1st UK edition. 355 p. Same book as the other Bergreen title. A look at the motivations, discussions and experiments of the late 20th century American scientists who have been looking for life on Mars.
Bergreen, Laurence. Voyage to Mars: NASA's Search for Life Beyond Earth. New York: Riverhead Press 2000 1st edition. 355 p. A look at the motivations, discussions and experiments of the late 20th century American scientists who have been looking for life on Mars.
Bortz, Fred. Martian Fossils on Earth? the Story of Meteorite ALH 84001. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press 2001 1st edition. 72 p.
Chambers, Paul. Life on Mars: the Complete story London: Blandford 1999 1st edition. 222p. A good recent overview of the efforts taken to investigate the possibility of life on Mars, starting with early observations and Lowell. The focus of the book is on more recent scientific efforts.
Chandler, David. Life on Mars. New York: E. P. Dutton 1979. 1st edition. 212 p. Explores the possibility of life on Mars. Does not appear a paperback version was published.
Cooper, Henry. The Search for Life on Mars: Evolution of an Idea. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1980 1st edition. 254 p.
DiGregorio, Barry with Dr. Gilbert V. Levin and Dr. Patricia Ann Straat. Mars: the Living Planet Berkeley: Frog Ltd. 1997 1st edition. 365 p. A work focusing on the interpretation and implications of the Viking Labeled Release Experiment data of Levin and Straat and meteorites ALH 84001 and EETA 79001.
Fisher, David. The Third Experiment: Is There Life on Mars? New York: Atheneum 1985 1st edition. A popular look at the exobiology experiments of the vbiking Missions
Goldsmith, Donald. The Hunt for Life on Mars New York: Dutton 1997 1st edition. 267 p. Primarily a study of the ALH 84001 meteorite and the controversy surrounding the theory that it shows evidence of Martian life.
Granger, Robert A. Life on Mars Lady Lake, FL: Scientific Archives 1997 1st edition. 164 p. A serious work looking at the conditions for life on Mars.
Hansson, Anders. Mars and the Development of Life. Chichester, NY: Wiley 1997 1st edition. xx, 198 p.
Nelson, the Earl (Albert Francis Joseph Horatio). There IS Life on Mars . London 1955 1st UK edition. A well meaning, yet seriously flawed book looking at the possibility of plant and intelligent life on Mars. perhaps too heavily influenced by Lowell. Lovely dust jacket however.
Nelson, the Earl (Albert Francis Joseph Horatio). There IS Life on Mars . New York: Citadel Press 1956 1st US edition. 152 p. A well meaning, yet seriously flawed book looking at the possibility of plant and intelligent life on Mars. perhaps too heavily influenced by Lowell. Lovely dust jacket however.
Pittendrigh, Colin, Wolf Vishniac, and J. P. T. Pearman eds. Biology and the Exploration of Mars: Report of a Study Held Under the Auspices of the Space Science Board 1964-1965. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences National Research Council 1966 1st edition. 516 p. Illus.
Strughold, Hubertus. The Green and Red Planet: A Physiological Study of the Possibility of Life on Mars. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico 1953 1st edition. 107 pgs. A fine book by a respected doctor and expert in the field.
Strughold, Hubertus. The Green and Red Planet: A Physiological Study of the Possibility of Life on Mars. London: Sidgewick and Jackson 1954 1st UK edition. 96 pgs. A fine book by a respected doctor and expert in the field.
Walter, M. R. The Search for Life on Mars. Cambridge MA: Perseus 1999 1st edition. xiv, 170 p.

 

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