ExtremeMicrobes redefine the limits of life

Karen Lloyd, the author of’Intraterrestrials’, informally billed her book when talking to her friends in science (including me) — and at a beach- bag-friendly 200 pages or so, this book is an unusual page-turner. Lloyd shows readers how to found life on planets like Earth and deep ocean crust, as well as in the most extreme environments, such as the volcanoes and permafrost soil.