Mars: Science Fiction to Colonization

by Lightning Guides

Science Fiction to Colonization, explores how science fiction has emerged into scientific fact as the prospect of colonizing Mars grows ever more tangible. From modern technology borne straight from the pages of classic novels to the Space Race, the first orbiter missions to the hypothesized underground hot houses that might provide fresh vegetables to the first colonizers, Mars illuminates the possibility of establishing an extraterrestrial human settlement. Mars covers rovers, orbiters, Mars, NASA and other space agencies, Curiosity, fossils, HG Wells, Ray Bradbury, Sputnik, Space Race, ExoMars, and Mars One, engineering, psychology, and culture.

Genres: Science

122 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2015

Reviews

[Gregory · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learnt a lot about Mars and the space age, it is a good book over all, but I was hoping for more “How To Colonise Mars”

[Kara · Rating 5 out of 5]

A cute little pocket sized book stuffed full of facts and factoids about our collective past, present and future imaginings of what Mars is, as well as how we have/are/will explore the Red Planet to try and find out what its really like.

[Norman Styers · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was hoping for more on colonization. The book spends a lot of time on general background material. It would be useful to someone just beginning to explore the subject.