Foreward, Joseph Seckbach and Maud Walsh. Introduction: A Roadmap to Fata Morgana?, Wladyslaw Altermann. List of authors and their addresses.\nGEOLOGY\nPART 1: Fossils and Fossilization\nNanosims Opens a New Window for Deciphering Organic matter in Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Samples, Dorothy Z. Oehler, Francois Robert, Smail Mostefaoui, Anders Meibom, Madeleine Selo, David S. McKay, and Everett K. Gibson\nDisentangling the Microbial Fossil Record in the Barberton Greenstone Belt: A Cautionary Tale, Maud M. Walsh and Frances Westall\nLooking through Windows onto the Earliest History of Life on Earth and Mars, David Wacey, Nicola McLoughlin, and Martin D. Brasier\nModels for Silicate Fossils of Organic Materials in the Astrobiological Context, Vera M. Kolb and Patrick J. Liesch\nMicrofossil Phosphatization and Its Astrobiological Implications, Shuhai Xiao and James D. Schiffbauer\nProterozoic Unicellular and Multicellular Fossils from India and Their Implications, Vinod Chandra Tewari\nPART 2: Stromatolites, Microbial Mats, and Biofilms\nStromatolites, B.P. Burns, M.R. Walter, and B.A. Neilan\nBiosedimentological Processes that Produce Hot Spring Sinter Biofabrics: Examples from the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia, Jessica C. Goin and Sherry L. Cady\nCyanobacterial Mat Features Preserved in the Siliciclastic Sedimentary Record, Hubertus Porada and Patrick G. Eriksson\nDeciphering Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Life and the Origin of Animals: Common Challenges in Different Worlds, Jonathan Antcliffe and Nicola McLoughlin\nBIOLOGY\nPART 3: Terrestrial Microbes as Analogs for Life Elsewhere in the Universe\nMicroorganisms in the Ancient Terrestrial Subsurface - And in Outer Space?, Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan, Marion Dornmayr-Pfaffenhuemer, Friedrich Gerbl, Andrea Legat, Claudia Gruber, and Gerhard Weidler\nEvidence of Ancient Microbial Life in a Large Impact Structure and Its Implications for Astrobiology - A Case Study, Tomas Hode, Shery L. Cady, Ilka von Dalwigk and Per Kristiansson\nPhylogenomic Dating and the Relative Ancestry of Prokaryotic Metabolisms, Carrine E. Blank\nFossil Microorganisms at Methane Seeps: An Astrobiological Perspective, Roberto Barbieri and Barbara Cavalazzi\nEndoliths in Terrestrial Arid Environments: Implications for Astrobiology, Nunzia Stivaletta and Roberto Barbieri\nMagnetotactic Bacteria and Their Potential for Terraformation, Ioan I. Ardelean, Cristina Moisescu, and Dan Razvan Popoviciu\nPART 4: Evolution and Astrobiology\nPaleontological Tests: Human-Like Intelligence Is Not a Convergent Feature of Evolution, Charles H. Lineweaver\nCosmic Life Forms, Attila Grandpierre\nSPACE SCIENCES\nPART 5: Astronomical and Cosmological Considerations in Astrobiology\nAstronomical and Astrobiological Imprints on the Fossil Records: A Review, J. Chela-Flores, G. Jerse, M. Messerotti, and C. Tuniz\nDo Impacts Really Cause Most Mass Extinctions?, Donald R. Prothero\nIrradiation of Icy Cometary Analogs: Its Relevance in Reference to Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life, Maria Colin-Garcia, A. Negron-Mendoza, S. Ramos-Bernal and E. Chacon\nThe Big Bang at Time Zero, Peter R. Bahn and Steven H. Pravdo\nMolecular Imprints of Reaction Network: Living or