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Interstellar Booklist

Many of the books listed below are ones that I used in preparing my 2005 book Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration. But in the time since, I've added a number of more recent titles. I'm hoping Heath Rezabek's curation project will reveal...

An Emerging Interstellar Bibliography

Today begins Heath Rezabek's survey as we look at the curation of a booklist on interstellar flight, using as basis a list of books I've gradually accumulated over the years. Before Heath introduces the survey, a few words about my methods: Many of the books listed...

Arthur C. Clarke: A Life Remembered

Space writer Neil McAleer's long association with Arthur C. Clarke culminated in Visionary: The Odyssey of Arthur C. Clarke (Clarke Project, 2012). A gifted journalist whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, McAleer is also the author of The Omni...

Interstellar Studies in Context

With the beginning of a new week it's time to ponder how best to move forward with coverage not only of the recent Starship Congress in Dallas, but the upcoming 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston. For that matter, I still have material from the Starship Century...

Interstellar Flight: Equations and Art

Les Johnson (MSFC) always says that the coolest job title he ever had in his long career at NASA was Manager of Interstellar Propulsion Research. Think about it -- if going to the stars is your passion and you have a title like that, you must feel that you have really...

Star Maker: The Philosophy of Olaf Stapledon

Kelvin Long and Richard Osborne have seen to it that the British Interplanetary Society's conference on the highly influential science fiction writer and philosopher Olaf Stapledon has gone off without a hitch. Here is their report from the event, a conference...

Notes & Queries 11/2/11

Tau Zero in Second Life I have almost no experience with online virtual worlds like Second Life, but I do want to mention that Marc Millis will appear later today (Nov. 2) on the ‘Virtually Speaking’ talk show program, which can be accessed here as well as in Second...

Kepler, SETI and Ancient Probes

We've already speculated here that if the Kepler mission finds few Earth-like planets in the course of its investigations, the belief that life is rare will grow. But let's be optimists and speculate on the reverse: What if Kepler pulls in dozens, even hundreds, of...