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Islands in the sky : bold new ideas for colonizing space / edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin.

Title
Islands in the sky : bold new ideas for colonizing space / edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin.
Publication
New York : John Wiley, c1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Schmidt, Stanley.
  • Zubrin, Robert.
Description
266 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Take off on a thrilling journey of space exploration and speculation - to the realm where science fiction becomes science fact - as leading writers, researchers, and astronautic engineers describe a not-too-distant future of interstellar travel and colonization from cable cars that ride "skyhooks" into space to rockets that can refuel out of Martian air, from "terraforming" planets (a process that makes them habitable for human life) to faster-than-light propulsion systems. Islands in the Sky offers an astonishing collection of challenging - and plausible - ideas and proposals from the pages of Analog magazine. Brilliant and provocating, here is fun-filled reading for everyone interested in science, technology, and the future."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Wiley popular science
Uniform Title
Wiley popular science
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part One: Breaking the Bonds of the Earth -- 1. Comes the Revolution -- 2. The Hypersonic Skyhook -- Part Two: Stepping Into the Solar System -- 3. Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet -- 4. Inward Ho! -- 5. Colonizing the Outer Solar System -- 6. Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud -- 7. Alien Life Between Here and There -- Part Three: Creating New Worlds -- 8. Terraforming Mars -- 9. A Planet Dweller's Dreams -- 10. Astrophysical Engineering and the Fate of the Earth -- Part Four: Advanced Drives and Interstellar Travel -- 11. To the Stars! -- 12. The Magnetic Sail -- 13. The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost -- 14. The Negative Matter Space Drive -- 15. The Economics of Interstellar Commerce.
ISBN
0471135615 (pbk : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95032914^
OCLC
  • 32820952
  • SCSB-11917396
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library