A City on Mars
Subtitle: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780141993300
Copyright date: 2023
First sentence: Wherever you are on this planet, you've recently given some thought to leaving it.
Table of contents: title: Introduction A Homesteader's Guide to the Red Planet?
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: A preamble on Space Myths
pagenum: 21; label: 2
title: Suffocation, Bone Loss, and Flying Pigs
pagenum: 43; label: 3
title: Space Sex and Consequences Thereof
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: Spacerfarer Psychology: In Which the Only Thing We're Sure of is That Astronauts are Liars
pagenum: 89; label: 5
title: The Moon: Great Location, Bit of a Fixer-Upper
pagenum: 121; label: 6
title: Mars: Landscapes of Poison and Toxic Skies, but What an Opportunity!
pagenum: 137; label: 7
title: Giant Rotating Space Wheels: Not Literlly the Worst Option
pagenum: 148; label: 8
title: Worse Options
pagenum: 158; label: 9
title: Outposts and Inputs: Poop, Food, and "Closing the Loop"
pagenum: 173; label: 10
title: There's No Place Like Spome: How to Build Outer-Space Habitats
pagenum: 192; label: 11
title: A Cynical History of Space
pagenum: 219; label: 12
title: The Outer Space Treaty: Great for Regulating Space Sixty Years Ago
pagenum: 234; label: 13
title: Murder in Space: Who Killed the Moon Agreement?
pagenum: 254; label: 14
title: Commonsing the Cosmos
pagenum: 279; label: 15
title: Dividing the Sky
pagenum: 295; label: 16
title: The Birth of Space-States: Like the Birth of Space Babies But Messier
pagenum: 309; label: 17
title: There's no Labor Pool on Mars: Outer Space as a Company Town
pagenum: 335; label: 18
title: How Big is Big? Plan B Settlements Without Genetic or Economic Calamaties
pagenum: 350; label: 19
title: Space Politics by Other Means: On the Possibility of Space War
pagenum: 359; label: 20
title: A Brief Code on a Rarely Considered Alternative: Wait-and-Go-Nowhere
pagenum: 376; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 380; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 389; title: Notes
pagenum: 391; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 401; title: Index
pagenum: 421