You just have to have a sense of humor when your job is hunting aliens from outer space, and this entertaining book will make you laugh out loud. This fifty year tour of the search for extraterrestrials is so enjoyable you won’t even realize you are also painlessly learning a lot about history, physics, mathematics, astronomy, biology and the exploration of the universe. Dr. Shostak is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and is a tireless promoter of the search.