ASU astronomers will join with geophysicists and geochemists in a $ 6.1 million grant to ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration that will try to explore how to tell whether chemical signs of life on
distant planets arose from geological processes or biological ones.
In A Darkling Sea, the setting is vastly different — under the water of a
distant planet — but Cambias spins an enthralling tale of (accidental) first contact with an alien species and all the complications that
arise from it.