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
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
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 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