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Title: Hoyle rehash
Review: Joseph is obviously a keen follower of the work of Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe because this book is just a recycling of H&C's ideas on panspermia. These ideas are pretty interesting but unfortunately they've been around for at least 25 years! Hoyle has always been at odds with the mainstream and is a true revolutionary or, at least, reactionary. What's more, much of his work on organic stuff in space and world-to-world seeding - once thought so fantastic - are now seeping into orthodox exobiology. Joseph would have been better off acknowledging where he got his ideas from up front, and then presenting some of his own views as an add-on.
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