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Science 20 March 2009:
Vol. 323. no. 5921, p. 1563
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172131
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FUTUROLOGY:
A Crystal Ball for Our Blue Planet

Giovanni F. Bignami

Surviving 1,000 Centuries
Can We Do It?
by Roger-Maurice Bonnet and Lodewijk Woltjer
Springer, Berlin, in association with Praxis, Chichester, UK, 2008. 442 pp. $39.95, £20. ISBN 9780387746333.
The authors discuss the challenges to life on Earth and how we might meet them.
The reviewer is at the Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori, Viale Lungo Ticino Sforza 56, 27100 Pavia, Italy, and the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy. E-mail: giovanni.bignami{at}gmail.com

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