Space Migration / Terraforming

This listing will cover: Space Migration, Space Colonies, Space Travel, Lunar Settlements, Mars Bases, Terraforming, Mass Drivers.

*note: New page. If you are aware of any books or websites which should be added, please let me know. Contributions will be fully accredited. Links welcome.

Space is huge enough, so that somewhere in its vastness there will always be a place for rebels and outlaws.... The open frontier will beckon as it beckoned before, to persecuted minorities escaping from oppression, to religious fanatics escaping from their neighbors, to recalcitrant teenagers escaping from their parents, to lovers of solitude escaping from crowds. Perhaps most important of all for Man's future, there will be groups of people setting out to find a place where they can be free from prying eyes, free to experiment with the creation of radically new types of human beings, surpassing us in mental capacities as we surpass the apes. --Freeman Dyson.

• Space Colonies edited by Stewart Brand
  (1977, non-fiction...Point / Penguin Books, New York, US, pbk... future, space colonies, space habitats... with input from Gerard K.O'Neill, K.Eric Drexler, Paolo Soleri, among others)

• Islands in the Sky by Arthur C.Clarke
  (1952, non-fiction...John C.Winston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US... space stations)

• A House in Space by Henry S.F.Cooper Jr
  (1976, non-fiction...Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, US... informal report on Skylab missions)

• Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
  (1979, non-fiction...Harper and Row, New York, US... presented the concept of 'Dyson Spheres')
  "Dyson is a brilliant and thought-provoking scientist. I highly recommend his work." --Henry W.Targowski.

• Worlds Beyond: The Everlasting Frontier edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin
  (1978, non-fiction...And/Or Press, Berkeley, California, US)

• Colonies in Space by Thomas A.Heppenheimer
  (1977, non-fiction...Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, hbk... future, space colonies)

• Toward Distant Suns by Thomas A.Heppenheimer
  (1979, non-fiction...Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, hbk... future, space colonies)

• Terra II...A Way Out by Timothy Leary
  (13 January 1974, non-fiction, illustrated...Grace Company, San Francisco, California, US, pbk... co-written with Lynn Wayne Benner, Joanna Leary, and Guanine... Leary's speculations on space migration... includes: "Starseed -- A Psi-Phy Comet Tale")

• Cultures Beyond the Earth edited by Magoroh Maruyama, Arthur Harkins
  (1975, non-fiction...Random House / Vintage Books, New York, US... space stations, space colonies)

• New Earths: Restructuring Earth and Other Planets by James Edward Oberg
  (1981, non-fiction, illustrated...Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, hbk... future, terraforming, environmental engineering, space colonies... Foreword by Jack Williamson...
  "One of the earliest books to cover the theories involved in the conversion of other planets to Earth-like conditions." --Henry W.Targowski.)

• Project Space Station: Plans for a Permanent Manned Space Center by Brian O'Leary
  (1983, non-fiction, illustrated...Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, hbk... future, space colonies, space habitats)

• The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K.O'Neill
  (1976, non-fiction, illustrated...Bantam Books, US... future, space colonies, space habitats)
  "One of the most outspoken advocates of space settlements." --Henry W.Targowski.

• 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future by Gerard K.O'Neill
  (1981, fiction/non-fiction... future, space colonies, space habitats...
  "A speculative future scenario intended to show the potential advantages of space settlement." --Henry W.Targowski.)

• Environmental Effects on Consciousness edited by Karl E.Schaefer
  (1962, non-fiction...The Macmillan Company, New York, US... proceedings of the First International Symposium on Submarine and Space Medicine... "a pioneer study of the inner frontier of man's psychological and physiological reaction to abnormal environmental conditions"... contains: "The Effect of Sensory Deprivation on Consciousness" by John C.Lilly)

• Doomsday Has Been Cancelled by J.Peter Vajk
  (1978, non-fiction...Peace Press, Culver City, California, US... space migration)
  "Vajk presents space settlement as an argument against the prevailing closed-world entropic view of environmentalists at the time." --Henry W.Targowski.

"Musings on Lunar Architecture" by Theodore W.Hall
(online document)

• Voyage by Stephen Baxter
  (1996, novel, science fiction...HarperCollins Voyager, London, UK, hbk, ISBN 0-00-224616-3... Mars, alternate history... website: The Stephen Baxter Fan Page)

• Moving Mars by Greg Bear
  (1994, novel, science fiction... Mars)

• Voyage to the Red Planet by Terry Bisson
  (1990, novel, science fiction... Mars)

• Red Dust by Paul J.McAuley
  (1993, novel, science fiction... Mars, terraforming)

• Mars Underground by William K.Hartmann
  (July 1997, novel, science fiction...Tor, New York, US, hbk, ISBN 0-312-86342-X... Mars colony... an astronomer's perspective, first novel)

• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  (1992, novel, science fiction... book 1 'Mars' trilogy... Mars, terraforming)

• Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  (1993, novel, science fiction... book 2 'Mars' trilogy... Mars, terraforming)

• Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  (April 1996, novel, science fiction... book 3 'Mars' trilogy... Mars, terraforming)

• Frontera by Lewis Shiner
  (August 1984, novel, science fiction...Baen, New York, US, pbk... Mars settlement)

• Mars Plus by Thomas T.Thomas and Frederik Pohl
  (1994, novel, science fiction... Mars)

Educational Space Simulations Project
(simulated trip to Mars)

Humans in Space
(factual site dealing with health and body matters in space)

The Island One Society
("The Island One Society is described as a group of future space colonists and business people of a libertarian political bent. The site has links to resources on international space law, politics and philosopy, propulsion systems and molecular manufacturing, among others." --Eric, Jenny, Ryan, Evan.)

LunaCity
(lunar base and space settlements are at issue here)

Mars Atlas home page
(essential topography for anyone visiting there)

Mars Directory
(thinking of moving?... here are the connections)

NASAcam
(live cams, mission displays... a view into NASA Mission Control)

Orbital Space Settlements
("to...enable the eventual establishment of permanent, self-sufficient settlements in space.")

Rodney A.Brooks
(Anachron Library entry... listing of his writings... microbots, construction robots, space migration, lunar base, Mars settlement... advocate of small robotic units with dispersed but collective intelligence)

Space Colony Art
(Nasa space colony art from the 1970s... also see Gerard K.O'Neill)
"Classic images well worth a view... recommended." --Henry W.Targowski.

Space Settlement
("Discusses the space settlement concepts of Gerard K. O'Neill as detailed in The High Frontier . Includes pictures and the Space Settlement FAQ." --Mike Combs.)

Space Studies Institute
(lunar development, teleoperation robot demonstration, space program, mass driver instruction kit, etc... includes links to papers by Gerard K.O'Neill... site maintained by Robert Lentz, e-mail: lentz@rossi.astro.nwu.edu)

Weekend on Mars
(BBC 2 television coverage of the Pathfinder landing on Mars, 4 July 1997... plus Mars-related programming)

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