Event: 10/20/13 Forbidden Planet Books, London
October 20, 2013 4:30-5:30pm: Book Signing Forbidden Planet 179 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2H 8JR Attending will be Gregory Benford, Stephen Baxter & James Benford. https://forbiddenplanet.com/ … Continue reading
The Starships are Coming
On September 17, 2013 Starship Century contributor Peter Schwartz gave a seminar for The Long Now Foundation at the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco. His talk was titled “The Starships ARE coming”. Here is The Long Now Foundation’s founding … Continue reading
Event: SETI G+ Hangout 9/26/2013
Our Interstellar Future in the eyes of Science and Science-Fiction Thursday September 26th 12 noon PDT / 3pm EDT Geoff Landis, Physicist and Science Fiction Author and Allen Steele, Award Winning Science Fiction Author, will hangout with SETI Institute scientists … Continue reading
Starship Symposium – London
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
Event: 9/25/13 KPCC
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
Event: 9/17/13 Long Now Foundation
September 17, 2013: Peter Schwartz “The Starships ARE Coming”, The Long Now Foundation, SF Jazz Center – San Francisco (live audio stream will be available to members) Co-editor, James Benford will be in attendance for this talk by Starship … Continue reading
The Future of New Space, Video
Starship Century was a symposium in May of 2013 coordinated by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from “Starship Century” their anthology of science and science fiction of a 100 year … Continue reading
Freeman Dyson – Noah’s Ark Eggs and Warm Blooded Plants, video
Starship Century was a symposium in May of 2013 coordinated by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from “Starship Century” their anthology of science and science fiction of a 100 year … Continue reading
Peter Schwartz – Starships and Fates of Humankind, Video
Starship Century was a symposium in May of 2013 coordinated by the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from “Starship Century” their anthology of science and science fiction of a 100 year … Continue reading
Living Large
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