On 3 June 1960, Freeman Dyson publishesan article discusing the “Dyson sphere”
Web Resources
Article available online at:
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/SfASSoIR.html
Links to various relevant online articles and documents provided by Robert Bradbury at:
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/DysonShells.html
Dyson Sphere FAQ drafted by Anders Sandberg, Robert Bradbury and others available online at:
http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/DysonFAQ.html{text}
Book References
Complete text of article reprinted, with an addendum to that reprint, in “Interstellar Communication : A Collection of Reprints and Original Contributions” (1963) (edited by A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 111-114 (in Chapter 11) of the W A Benjamin hardback edition.
Complete text of article reprinted 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 108-109 (in Chapter 22) of the University Science Books hardback edition.
For discussion of Dyson spheres see the following:
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Allen, Tom in his “The Quest: A Report on Extraterrestrial life " (1965) at page 196 (in Chapter 9) of the Chilton hardback edition. |
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Anderson, Poul in a letter in Science, Volume 132 (1960.0722), pages 250-253. Letter available online at:http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/SfASSoIR_ltr.html |
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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 11 (in the entry entitled “astroengineering”), 30-31 (in the entry entitled “Dyson sphere”), 67 (in the entry entitled “infrared (IR) astronomy”), 100 (in the entry entitled “Megasphere”) 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 144-145 (in Chapter 9) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Ashpole, Edward in his “Where is Everybody?” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 97-98 (in Chapter 6) of the Sigma Press softcover edition. |
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Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 250-251 (in Chapter 13) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 283-284 of the Pan paperback edition. |
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Benjamin, |
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Berry, Adrian in his “The Next Ten Thousand Years” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 151-154 (in Chapter 12), 167-174, 177 (in Chapter 13), 229 (in the Notes and References) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-117 (in Chapter 13) of the Heinemann softcover edition. |
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Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in the entry entitled “Dyson Sphere”) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Clark, Andrew J H and Clark, David H in their “Aliens“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in Chapter 2), 229-230 (in Chapter 7) of the Fromm hardback edition. |
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Clark, Stuart in his “Life on Other Worlds and How to Find It” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 151 (in Chapter 11) of the Springer hardback edition. |
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Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 115-116 (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 “Dyson sphere”. The relevant entry is available online at: |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 122-123 (in Chapter 5) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 212 (in Chapter 7) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 432 (in Chapter 8) of the |
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Drake, Frank and Dava Sobel in their “Is Anyone Out There?“ (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68, 69 (in Chapter 4) of the Pocket Books paperback edition. |
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Dyson, Freeman in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 324-325 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Freeman Dyson”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Dyson, Freeman in his “Disturbing the Universe” (1979) at pages 211-217 (in Chapter 19) of the Harper & Row hardback edition. |
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Dyson, Freeman J in a letter in Science, Volume 132 (1960.0722), pages 250-253. Letter available online at:http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/SfASSoIR_ltr.html |
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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 361-362 (in Chapter 18) of the Benjamin Cummings softcover edition, at page 426 (in Chapter 17) of the 1992 Addison Wesley softcover revised second edition. |
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Harrison, Albert A in his “After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 162 (in Chapter 6) of the Plenum Trade hardback edition. |
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Heidmann, Jean in his “Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xviii-xix (in the Preface) of the |
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Horowitz, Paul in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 412 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Paul Horowitz”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-185 (in Chapter 7) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Lemonick, Michael in his “Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 232 (in Chapter 13) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Simon & Schuster softcover edition). |
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Lunan, Duncan in his “Man and the Stars” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 101-102 (in Chapter 5), 146-147 (in Chapter 8), 187-191 (in Chapter 10) of the Souvenir Press hardback edition, at pages 126-127, 181-182, 235-239 of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Maddox, John in a letter in Science, Volume 132 (1960.0722), pages 250-253. Letter available online at:http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/SfASSoIR_ltr.html |
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McDonough, Thomas R in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Listening for Life in the Cosmos” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 134-135 (in Chapter 9) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 211 (in Chapter 11) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition. |
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Nicolson, Iain K M in Adrian Berry’s “The Next Ten Thousand Years” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 197-207 (Appendix 3 generally) of the Coronet paperback edition. |
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Oberg, James in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 91 (in Chapter 10) of the |
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Oliver, Bernard and Billingham, John et al in “Project Cyclops: A Design Study of a System for Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life : NASA Contractor Report 114445 (“NASA CR |
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Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 53-54 (in Chapter 3) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 50-51 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 243-244 (in Chapter 16), 250 (in Chapter 17) of the Scribners hardback edition. |
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Roulet, Alfred in his “The Search for Intelligent Life in Outer Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 120-122 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Odds on Life in Space”) of the |
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Sagan, Carl in “Interstellar Communication : Scientific Perspectives” (1974) (edited by Cyril Ponnamperuma and A G W Cameron) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 22 (in Chapter 1) of the Houghton Mifflin softcover edition. |
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Sagan, Carl in his “The Cosmic Connection” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 230, 231 (in Chapter 33) of the Double Day hardcover edition, with the same page numbering in the Coronet softcover edition. |
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SETI Institute’s SETI Science and Technology Working Group (“the SSTWG”) in “SETI 2020 : A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (2002) (edited by Elkers, Ronald D and Cullers, Kent D and Billingham, John and Scheffer, Louis K) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 233 (in Chapter 7) of the SETI Press softcover edition. |
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Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich and Sagan, Carl in their “Intelligent Life in the Universe” (1966) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 472-475, 477 (in Chapter 34) of the Picador softcover edition. |
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Sloane, Eugene in a letter in Science, Volume 132 (1960.0722), pages 250-253. Letter available online at:http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/ETI/Authors/Dyson-FJ/SfASSoIR_ltr.html |
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Stoneley, Jack and |
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Sullivan, Walter in his “We Are Not Alone” (1964) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 221-222 (in Chapter 15) of the Signet paperback revised editions. |
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Swift, David W in his “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 (in the Introduction) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Tarter, Jill Cornell in an interview in David W Swift’s “SETI Pioneers : Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 370 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Jill Cornell Tarter”) of the Arizona hardback edition. |
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Tarter, Jill in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 10 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Tonnies, Mac in his “After the Martian Apocalypse” (2004) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 199-200 (in Chapter 9) of the Paraview Pocket 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 84-85, 90 (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 54 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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White, Michael in his “Life Out There” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 98-99 (in Chapter 5) of the Little, Brown & Co hardback edition. |
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Wolfe, John in “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : NASA Special Publication 419 (“NASA SP |
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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 240-242 (in Chapter 10) of the Tarcher Putnam hardback edition. |
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Zuckerman, Ben in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages ix, x (in the Preface to the Second Edition) of the |
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Other Material
F J Dyson “Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation”, Science, Volume 131 (1960.0603), pages 1667-1668