Islands in The Sky: Bold New Ideas For Colonizing Space - Contents

Contents

  • Introduction, Stanley Schmidt
  • Part One: Breaking the Bonds of the Earth
    • "Comes the Revolution...", G. Harry Stine
    • "The Hypersonic Skyhook", Robert Zubrin
  • Part Two: Stepping Into the Solar System
    • "Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet", Robert Zubrin and David A. Baker
    • "Inward Ho!", Stephen L. Gillett
    • "Colonizing the Outer Solar System", Robert Zubrin
    • "Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud", Richard P. Terra
    • "Alien Life Between Here and the Stars", Robert L. Forward
  • Part Three: Creating New Worlds
    • "Terraforming Mars", Robert Zubrin and Christopher P. McKay
    • "A Planet Dweller's Dreams", Martyn J. Fogg
    • "Atrophysical Engineering and the Fate of the Earth", Martyn J. Fogg
  • Part Four: Advanced Drives and Interstellar Travel
    • "To the Stars!", Gordon R. Woodcock
    • "The Magnetic Sail", Robert Zubrin
    • "The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost", John G. Cramer
    • "The Negative Matter Space Drive", Robert L. Forward
    • "The Economics of Interstellar Commerce", Warren Salomon
Robert Zubrin
Books
  • The Case for Mars
  • Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
  • Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
  • Mars On Earth: The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic
  • First Landing
  • The Holy Land
  • Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts
  • Energy Victory
  • How to Live on Mars
  • Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism
See also
  • Mars Direct
  • Mars Society
  • Ethics of terraforming
  • Nuclear salt-water rocket

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