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
Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction of a 100 year project to create a starship. The … Continue reading
Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction of a 100 year project to create a starship. The … 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 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
Dr. Robert Zubrin is president of Pioneer Astronautics, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, the president of the Mars Society, and the author of The Case for Mars, and Energy Victory. His newest book, Merchants of Despair: Radical … Continue reading