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Fred Nadis Star Settlers (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Star Settlers : the Billionaires, Geniuses, and Crazed Visionaries Out to Conquer the Universe
- Publication Name
- Star Settlers
- Title
- Star Settlers
- Subtitle
- The Billionaires, Geniuses, and Crazed Visionaries Out to Conquer
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1643134485
- EAN
- 9781643134482
- ISBN
- 9781643134482
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Genre
- Transportation, Science
- Topic
- Physics / Astrophysics, General, Space Science
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 01/10/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The story behind the elite scientists, technologists, SF enthusiasts, and billionaires who believe that humanity's destiny is to populate the stars . . . Does humanity have a destiny "in the stars?" Should a species triggering massive extinctions on its own planet instead stay put? This new book traces the waxing and waning of interest in space settlement through the decades, and offers a journalistic tour through the influential subculture attempting to shape a multiplanetary future. What motivates figures such as billionaires Elon Musk and Yuri Milner? How important have science fiction authors and filmmakers been in stirring enthusiasm for actual space exploration and settlement? Is there a coherent motivating philosophy and ethic behind the spacefaring dream? Star Settlers offers both a historical perspective and a journalistic window into a peculiar subculture packed with members of the scientific, intellectual, and economic elite. This timely work captures the extra-scientific zeal for space travel and settlement, places it in its historical context, and tackles the somewhat surreal conceptions underlying the enterprise and prognoses for its future.
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1643134485
ISBN-13
9781643134482
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038634280
Product Key Features
Book Title
Star Settlers : the Billionaires, Geniuses, and Crazed Visionaries Out to Conquer the Universe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Physics / Astrophysics, General, Space Science
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Transportation, Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tl873
Reviews
A futuristic, optimistic, and intellectually stimulating report for space enthusiasts or readers with celestial wanderlust., Science journalist Nadis ( The Man from Mars ) delivers a thought-provoking look at the scientists, space fans, and industrialists determined to settle humanity among the stars...With this grounded but far-reaching treatise, Nadis introduces readers to some fascinating dreams of the future., Through keen insights, humorous anecdotes, and personal details, Star Settlers pulls us lightyears away while keeping its feet firmly planted on the Earth., Nadis delivers a thought-provoking look at the scientists, space fans, and industrialists determined to settle humanity among the stars. With this grounded but far-reaching treatise, Nadis introduces readers to some fascinating dreams of the future., Star Settlers is a brilliant survey of a long century of schemes for the human colonization of the heavens and the eccentric promoters who have launched them, from Wernher von Braun to Elon Musk. Combining a historian's insights with a keen sense of character, detail, and good humor, Fred Nadis traces the trajectory of our utopian spacefaring dreams in a way it has never been mapped., [A] fascinating exploration of the human quest to mine extraterrestrial lands for habitation...a solid, sometimes wondrous introduction to a field that is just beginning to show signs of promise....A futuristic, optimistic, and intellectually stimulating report for space enthusiasts or readers with celestial wanderlust., "Nadis is an excellent writer--the prose flows easily off the page and into your mind. I call this "transparent writing"--writing so lucid you don't feel like you are reading, but that the ideas are zipping directly into your brain. Nadis has done extensive personal research to support the book, including journeys to interesting places and interviews with long-time but little-known space settlement advocates like Peter Kokh, editor of the Moon Miner's Manifesto and distinguished NSS leader."
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
629.45
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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