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ISBN 0-1400-4805-7 (US pbk)
non-fiction, space migration, space settlements, Gerard K.O'Neill, K.Eric Drexler, Paolo Soleri, R.Buckminster Fuller, future
A collection of essays, letters, interviews, book reviews, and comments on space colonies.
"If you are a regular CQ subscriber you'll be glad to know that about 20% -- some 32 pages -- of this book is brand new (1977) material which hasn't appeared in the magazine and won't. This includes most of the book reviews, the Governor Jerry Brown material, two Eric Drexler articles, and the two most recent interviews with Space Colony designer Gerard O'Neill and astronaut Russell Schweickart.
"The book is organized into three sections -- Vision, Debate, and Space. The Vision is Gerard O'Neill's domain -- progressing from broad propaganda to technical details to anecdotes. The Debate section is probably the most unique to this book since no one else has published the highly intelligent attacks that have been stung into life by the Space Colony idea. And the third section -- Space -- is natural history, accounts from people such as astronaut Schweickart and space scientist Sagan and politician Brown. Finishing, if you please, on a note of reality." --Stewart Brand (from the introduction to Space Colonies , US pbk, 1977).
Recommended.
"Most of this book is Used Information. It is reprinted from various issues of The CoEvolution Quarterly , a California-based peculiar magazine....
"Includes two articles and a letter by a 22-year-old K.Eric Drexler. Check the photo of him (taken at the L-5 Society commune in Tucson, Arizona) on page 90." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1997).
Gerard K.O'Neill
(principal proponent of Space Settlements)
Whole Earth Review
(magazine successor to Whole Earth Catalog )
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