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
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
Starship Century editor Greg Benford sat down with the SETI Institute‘s Jill Tarter on May 22nd for a Google hangout to discuss our interstellar future. Despite a few minor tech glitches at the start, it’s an enlivening conversation hosted … 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