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
October 21, 2013: The Second Starship Century Symposium – Royal Astronomical Society, Piccadilly, London This is the sequel to their enormously successful first symposium, which was held at the Arthur C Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of … Continue reading
September 25, 2013: Gregory Benford – NEXT: Is this the Starship Century?, KPCC (Southern California Public Radio), The Crawford Family Foundation – Pasadena,CA Physicist and Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Gregory Benford is at the forefront of this quest. … Continue reading
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