SCIENCE
Stephen Hawking
Freeman Dyson
Sir Martin Rees
Robert Zubrin
Paul Davies
SCIENCE FICTION
Neal Stephenson
Stephen Baxter
Joe Haldeman
Nancy Kress
David Brin
Edited by James Benford and Gregory Benford
Our kindly planet fits us well, but space ships will need a great deal of tuning to even approximate the easy environment we evolved into. This story began as nonfiction, then developed its own logic and now is fictional—though not … Continue reading
This story follows on the logic of Neal Stephenson’s story, but over a longer timeline, as the interplanetary economy develops in wild west fashion. Modeled somewhat upon the famous Robert A. Heinlein story, in treats a focused man who has … Continue reading
Recently Neal Stephenson began Hieroglyph, a project to envision truly large scale, new ideas for our future. A major goal is to bring constructive criticism to our ideas of the future themselves, not just pointing out problems. As his collaborator … Continue reading
Gregory Benford: Historically, coal and the railroad train enabled much of the industrial revolution. Both came from the underlying innovation of steam engines. Coal was the new wonder fuel, far better than wood though harder to extract, and it made … Continue reading
THE BOOK… doesn’t just have groundbreaking articles on developing the solar system economy this century, and how to envision starships as a goal of those next 100 years. It has fiction too. One is a tightly argued piece by David … Continue reading
The following is the second half of the introduction to Starship Century available in print and ebook August 2013. The first part can be found here. Starships in Science Fiction The effect on science fiction (sf) writers mirrors this decline. … Continue reading
The following is excerpted from the introduction to Starship Century available in print and ebook August 2013: Come, my friends. ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; … Continue reading