TOC:
1 A Brief History of Talking to Aliens 1
2 From CETI to METI 19
3 Aliens on Earth 37
4 Cosmic Computers and Interstellar Cats 55
5 Is There a Language of the Universe? 71
6 Toward a Lingua Cosmica 93
7 How to Talk in Space 111
8 Art as a Universal Language 135
9 The Many Futures of METI 155
Appendix A: The Arecibo Message 171
Appendix B: The Cosmic Call Transmissions 179
Appendix C: Lincos 193
Appendix D: The Lambda Calculus and Its Application to Astrolinguistics 203
References 225
Index 247