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Terraforming Mars
Can anyone recommend a good book on Terraforming Mars? I've found references to a few, but my wrists are getting sore from following links.
I need a good reference source for a writer friend. He wants to be able to get the science reasonably correct and he's not got a strong science background, so it can't be too complex.
Ideally, I want something that suggests a reasonably quick method of terraforming and hopefully involves use of a soletta. I'd also prefer it to be reasonably accessible to a non-scientist.
I've been pondering Zubin's 'The Case for Mars' but I gain the impression that a large part of it is taken up with how to get to Mars in the first place. I don't know how much of it deals with Terraforming.
I'm also interested in fiction that is well-researched on the topic (so Kim Stanley Robinson's books are one option).
I've been trying to find a web site that goes into detail, but most are furstratingly brief.
I found an interesting article here http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/ls09.html by Paul Birch, that is presumably a condensed version of a longer article. Does anyone have anything more detailed on this particular approach?
Also, I'm sure I saw a review a few years back of a book that had loads of pictorial images of a Mars terraform, but I'm not finding it on my searches. Does anyone know what book I'm thinking of?
I need a good reference source for a writer friend. He wants to be able to get the science reasonably correct and he's not got a strong science background, so it can't be too complex.
Ideally, I want something that suggests a reasonably quick method of terraforming and hopefully involves use of a soletta. I'd also prefer it to be reasonably accessible to a non-scientist.
I've been pondering Zubin's 'The Case for Mars' but I gain the impression that a large part of it is taken up with how to get to Mars in the first place. I don't know how much of it deals with Terraforming.
I'm also interested in fiction that is well-researched on the topic (so Kim Stanley Robinson's books are one option).
I've been trying to find a web site that goes into detail, but most are furstratingly brief.
I found an interesting article here http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/ls09.html by Paul Birch, that is presumably a condensed version of a longer article. Does anyone have anything more detailed on this particular approach?
Also, I'm sure I saw a review a few years back of a book that had loads of pictorial images of a Mars terraform, but I'm not finding it on my searches. Does anyone know what book I'm thinking of?
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Although its fiction a lot of the first books terraforming stuff was based on current (at the time of publishing) Thinking ...
Red Mars is worth a read if you haven't.