I would first like to extend my thanks to Matthew Sheard for helping me write my article and answering my questions along the way.

I’ve always had a deep interest in museums, astrobiology and science fiction. So, of course, I was delighted to learn about Alien Worlds.

Before around the 1830s, when publisher-bound books became commonly available, books were sold in their sheets to be bound by the receiver.

University Collections contains rare books, archives, photographs and museum objects, held by the University of St Andrews. Many of these,