Brief review to be added of “The High Frontier” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) Gerard O’Neill.
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For discussion of O’Neill’s “The High Frontier” and O’Neill’s proposal for space colonies see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-74 (in Chapter 6) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
5 |
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Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 190 (in the entry entitled “space station”) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10, 12 (in Chapter 1), 114-128, 130 (in Chapter 7) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
18 |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12 (in Chapter 2), 149-158 (in Chapter 9) of the Sigma Press softcover edition. |
11 |
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Baird, John C in his “The Inner Limits of Outer Space” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 48-53, 56-59 (in Chapter 4) of the Dartmouth hardback edition. |
10 |
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Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 141-142, 145-161 (in Chapter 4) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition. |
19 |
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Berry, Adrian in his “From Apes to Astronauts” (1980) at pages 35-37 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The brace new worlds of Lagrangia”) of the Daily Telegraph paperback edition. |
3 |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Next Ten Thousand Years” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 160-163 (in Chapter 12) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Bova, Ben in his “The High Road” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 192-193 (in Chapter 23), 238, 239-246 (Chapter 28 generally) of the Houghton Mifflin hardback edition. |
11 |
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Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-123 (in Chapter 14) of the Heinemann softcover edition. |
5 |
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Brand, Stewart in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 39-48 (in Sequence 5) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”). |
10 |
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Brin, David in “Are We Alone in the Cosmos” (1999) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 141-142 (in Chapter 3, essay entitled “Mystery of the Great Silence”) of the ibooks softcover edition. |
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Brin, David in “First Contact” (1990) (edited by Ben Bova and Byron Preiss) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 122 (in Chapter 3, essay entitled “Mystery of the Great Silence”) of the NAL Books hardback edition, at pages 159 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 305-306 (in the entry entitled “O’ Neill, Gerard Kitchen (1927-1992)”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 347 (in Chapter 14), 483 (in the Notes) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
2 |
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Drake, Frank and Sobel, Dava in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 127-129, 130 (in Chapter 6) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
4 |
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Dyson, Freeman in his “Disturbing the Universe” (1979) at pages 124, 125-126 (in Chapter 11), 233 (in Chapter 21) of the Harper & Row hardback edition. |
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Edelson, Edward in his “Who Goes There?” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 156-163 (in Chapter 12) of the NEL paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the NEL paperback edition combining this book and Chris Boyce’s “Extraterrestrial Encounter). |
8 |
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Feinberg, Gerald and Shapiro, Robert in their “Life Beyond Earth” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 432-433 (in Chapter 14) of the Morrow hardback edition. |
2 |
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Glushko, Valentin in his “Soviet Cosmonautics” (1988) at pages 132-133 (in Chapter 7) of the Novosti Press softcover edition. |
2 |
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Goldsmith, Donald and Owen, Tobias in their “The Search for Life in the Universe” (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 357-361 (in Chapter 18) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at pages 421-424 (in Chapter 17) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
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Harrison, Albert A in his “Spacefaring : The Human Dimension” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 227-229, 232, 234, 235 (in Chapter 13) of the California softcover edition. |
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Jones, Eric M in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 11) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
1 |
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Kuiper, Thomas B H and Morris, Mark in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 171 (in Chapter 34) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “Searching for Extraterrestrial Civilizations” Science, Volume 196, pages 616-621 (1977). |
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Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 20-21 (in Chapter 2) of the Wiley hardback edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-92 (in Chapter 5), 162, 163 (in Chapter 9) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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O’ Neil in “The Quest For Extraterrestrial Life : A Book of Readings” (1980) (edited by Donald Goldsmith) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 283-292 (in Chapter 57) of the University Science Books hardback edition. The relevant chapter is a reprint of “The Colonization of Space”, Physics Today, Volume 27 (1974), pages 32ff. |
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O’ Neill, Gerard in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 51-58 (in Sequence 6), 74-79, 81-85 (in Sequence 8), 86-90 (in Sequence 9) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”). |
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O’ Neill, Gerard in his “The High Frontier” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages i-ii (in the Preface to the Bantam Edition) of the revised Corgi paperback edition. |
2 |
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Park, Robert in his “Voodoo Science” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-85 (in Chapter 4) of the Oxford University Press hardcover edition. |
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Parker, Barry in his “Alien Life” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 188-190 (in Chapter 11), 199-203 (in Chapter 12) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 154-155 (in Chapter 9), 213 (in Chapter 12) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Life Off Earth” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 70-72 (in Chapter 6) of the Granada hardback edition. |
3 |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Messages from the Stars” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 81-97 (in Chapter 5), 98, 105 (in Chapter 6) of the Fontana paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 58-59 (in Chapter 3) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 56-58 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
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Rood, Robert and Trefil, James in their “Are We Alone?“ (1980) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 185-186, 192, 196-197, 200 (in Chapter 13), 207, 209, 217 (in Chapter 14) of the Scribners hardback edition. |
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Shostak, Seth in his “Sharing the Universe” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-125 (in Chapter 6) of the Berkeley Hills softcover edition. |
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Singer, Cliff in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 71-74 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Stoneley, Jack and Lawton, A T in their “CETI: Communication with Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 146-149 (in Chapter 19) of the Star Books paperback edition. |
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Tipler, Frank in “Extraterrestrials: Science and alien intelligence” (1985) (edited by Edward Regis) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 136, 145, 146 (in Part 4) of the Cambridge University Press softcover edition. (The relevant chapter is a reprint of Frank Tipler’s article “Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings do not Exist” (1980), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 21, pages 267-281). |
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Vajk, J Peter in “Worlds Beyond” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) (edited by Larry Geis and Fabrice Florin) at pages 59-73 (in Sequence 7) of the And/Or softcover edition (with the same page numbering in the Perennial Library paperback edition published under the title “Moving Into Space: The Myths and Realities of Extraterrestrial Life”). |
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Watkins, Leslie in his “Alternative 3“ (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 10-11 (in Section 1), 109-110 (in Section 7), 218-222 (in Section 13) of the Warner Books softcover edition. |
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Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-86 (in Chapter 4) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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White, Frank in his “The SETI Factor” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 32 (in Chapter 3) of the Walker hardback edition. |
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Zubrin, Robert in his “Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 72-73, 74-75 (in Chapter 4), 190 (in Chapter 9), 242 (in Chapter 10) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition. |
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