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Astronomer Royal
“The Hoyle-Wickramasinghe collaboration was notable for the daring leaps over knowledge gaps they were prepared to make. This book is a valuable guide to their corpus, and can serve as a source of ideas and speculations.”
International Journal of Astrobiology
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The Observatory Magazine
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