Astronautics: In 1929, the “Generation ship” idea was proposed by John D Bernal in his book “The World, the Flesh, and the Devil”.
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Book References
For discussion of Bernal’s book and/or “generation ships” see the following:
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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 pages 14 (in the entry entitled “bernal sphere”), 190 (in the entry entitled “space station) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition. |
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Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-241 (in Chapter 12) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 265-273 of the Pan paperback edition. |
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Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-144, 155, 162 (in Chapter 4) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition. |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 2) of the revised Headline softcover edition. |
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Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in the Reader's Guide) of the Heinemann softcover edition. |
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Clarke, Arthur C in “Arthur C Clarke’s Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious” (1987) (by Fairley, John & Welfare, Simon) at page 180 (in Chapter 9) of the Guild Publishing hardback edition. |
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Clarke, Arthur in his “By Space Possessed” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 3) of the Victor Gollancz hardback edition. |
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Crawford, Ian in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-43 (in the entry entitled “Bernal Sphere”), 115 (in the entry entitled “Dyson sphere”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition. |
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Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Generation Ship”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/G/generationship.html |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 347 (in Chapter 14) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback 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 246-250 (in Chapter 14) of the California softcover edition. |
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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 11, 13 (in Chapter 1), 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 86 (in Chapter 5), 161-166 (in Chapter 9) of the Book Club Associates 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 78-80 (in Chapter 5), 152, 155-156 (in Chapter 9) of the Warner paperback edition. |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 148 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”. |
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Ross, Hugh in “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men” (2002) (edited by Ross, Hugh and Samples, Kenneth and Clark, Mark) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-63 (in Chapter 5) of the Navpress 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 pages 74-75 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. |
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Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Millenium paperback 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 63 (in Chapter 4), 252 (in the Notes and Further Reading) of the Copernicus hardback edition. |
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