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Silicon-Based Life and the Planet Mercury: Fiction and Fact

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The science fiction story in this book deals with a silicon-based life form that develops on the planet Mercury. Is this possible? If so, what is the evidence for its occurrence? Most of this section will examine the issue of silicon life on Mercury from a scientific and technical perspective. But first, let’s take a look at what has been portrayed historically in the science fiction literature.

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Kanas, N. (2016). Silicon-Based Life and the Planet Mercury: Fiction and Fact. In: The Caloris Network. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30579-0_2

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