We all know this: many taxi drivers love to talk. Sport, politics, society, traffic jams—they can keep a conversation going on almost any topic. And when an astrobiologist, Charles Cockell, sits in the passenger seat, the discussion is inevitably about space.
Inspired by conversations with taxi drivers around the world, Cockell answers the most intriguing questions: Will we understand aliens? What if there is no life in the universe? Is Mars our Plan B?
This book is a string of friendly chats in the passenger seat of a taxi with the widest variety of drivers, who, during a short ride, are about to dive into the deepest secrets of the cosmos.