Useful Space Colonization Non-fiction

Description
The best books on colonizing space for the engineer, colonist or writer
Based on tag
space colonization
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Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
by Robert Zubrin
358 members
3 reviews
3.9
4 Members
ABVR, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1, LoreleiOrion,jdfm
2
Pale Blue Dot : A Vision of the Human Future in Space
by Carl Sagan
2,941 members
30 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
stellarexplorer, jdfm
3
The Cosmic Connection
by Carl Sagan
1,017 members
10 reviews
4.1
2 Members
stellarexplorer, LoreleiOrion
4
The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must
by Robert Zubrin
792 members
15 reviews
4
3 Members
ABVR, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,jdfm
5
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
by Stanley Schmidt
78 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ABVR, pan0ramix
6
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension
by Albert A. Harrison
71 members
4
2 Members
jdfm, Bretzky1
7
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
3,789 members
265 reviews
4
3 Members
norabelle414, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,aulsmith ,jdfm
8
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
by Marshall T. Savage
219 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ABVR
9
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
by Paul Gilster
86 members
1 review
4.2
Member
stellarexplorer
10
Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience
by Ben R. Finney
77 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
stellarexplorer
11
Space Settlements: A Design Study
by Richard D. Johnson
51 members
1 review
½ 4.6
Member
aulsmith
Explanations
aulsmith: A brilliant design study for a large space habitat done in the 1970s. I don't think anything else has been done along these lines since then.
12
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution
by Frank White
51 members
2
Member
stellarexplorer
13
Pioneering the Space Frontier
by Ted Simpson
47 members
Member
LoreleiOrion
14
2001: Building for Space Travel
by John Zukowsky
35 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
15
Habitable Planets for Man
by Stephen H. Dole
31 members
½ 4.4
Member
aulsmith
16
Pioneering Space: Living on the Next Frontier
by James E. Oberg
26 members
3 reviews
4
Member
barbharris1
Explanations
barbharris1: Tackles all of the issues of living in a space environment
17
Planets for Man
by Stephen H. Dole
19 members
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
18
Interior Pedestrian Places
by Michael J. Bednar
8 members
4
Member
aulsmith
19
Space Resources and Space Settlements (NASA SP-428)
by Gerard K. O'Neill
7 members
3.8
Member
aulsmith
20
Symposium on human problems in the utilization of fallout shelter
by George W. Baker
1 member
1 review
4
Member
aulsmith
21
Colonies in Space
by T. A. Heppenheimer
195 members
1 review
3.8
23
Space Colonies (A Coevolution book)
by Stewart Brand
63 members
3 reviews
3.8
24
Living off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos
by Gregory L. Matloff
23 members
1 review
25
A Maze of Death
by Philip K. Dick
1,815 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Bloom
by Wil McCarthy
429 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
27
Clarke County, Space
by Allen Steele
364 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
28
Lunar Descent
by Allen Steele
305 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
29
New Earth: Rough Trails
by L. A. Graf
260 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
30
New Earth: The Flaming Arrow
by Kathy Oltion
245 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
31
New Earth: Thin Air
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
240 members
1 review
½ 3.6
32
New Earth: Challenger
by Diane Carey
238 members
1 review
3.8
33
Mars Plus
by Frederik Pohl
198 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
34
In the Mouth of the Whale
by Paul McAuley
137 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
35
First Landing
by Robert Zubrin
104 members
2 reviews
3
36
Welcome to Moonbase
by Ben Bova
92 members
1 review
½ 3.6
37
We
by John Dickinson
46 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Sleepers [short story]
by Jon Ingold
2 members
1 review
3
39
Worlds Beyond
by Larry Geis
18 members
½ 1.5
40
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
4,375 members
73 reviews
3.9
41
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
8,370 members
185 reviews
3.8
42
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
by Gerard K. O'Neill
364 members
3 reviews
3.9
43
Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
4,768 members
55 reviews
3.9
44
Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
5,210 members
66 reviews
3.9
45
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
16,732 members
325 reviews
4
46
The Songs of Distant Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
3,381 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
47
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
8,729 members
412 reviews
4.1
48
Nemesis
by Isaac Asimov
3,553 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
49
The Annals of the Heechee
by Frederik Pohl
1,245 members
12 reviews
½ 3.4
50
Heart of the Comet
by Gregory Benford
1,199 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
51
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
10,463 members
183 reviews
4.1
52
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,210 members
121 reviews
½ 3.4
53
Earthfall
by Orson Scott Card
1,798 members
14 reviews
½ 3.4
54
Cities in Flight
by James Blish
1,786 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
55
Semiosis
by Sue Burke
906 members
38 reviews
3.8
56
Coyote
by Allen Steele
820 members
27 reviews
½ 3.6
57
The Exploration of Space
by Arthur C. Clarke
302 members
1 review
3.8
58
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,940 members
695 reviews
½ 4.3
59
Downbelow Station
by C. J. Cherryh
2,837 members
69 reviews
3.8
60
Imperial Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
2,204 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
61
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
2,071 members
133 reviews
3.9
62
Triton
by Samuel R. Delany
1,340 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
63
Coyote Rising
by Allen Steele
497 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
64
Starshine
by G. S. Jennsen
205 members
6 reviews
3.8
65
How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books)
by Stephen Petranek
141 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
16,579 members
169 reviews
½ 3.7
67
Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert
13,961 members
99 reviews
½ 3.7
68
Artemis
by Andy Weir
6,032 members
361 reviews
½ 3.5
69
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
4,871 members
252 reviews
3.9
70
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
4,676 members
101 reviews
3.9
71
Caliban's War
by James S. A. Corey
4,229 members
183 reviews
4.1
72
The Last Colony
by John Scalzi
3,787 members
124 reviews
3.9
73
Abaddon's Gate
by James S. A. Corey
3,514 members
142 reviews
4.1
74
Embassytown
by China Miéville
3,426 members
215 reviews
3.9
75
Singularity Sky
by Charles Stross
3,028 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
76
The Word for World is Forest
by Ursula K. Le Guin
2,933 members
94 reviews
3.8
77
Cibola Burn
by James S. A. Corey
2,895 members
120 reviews
4
78
Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
2,619 members
112 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Orphans of the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
2,460 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Integral Trees
by Larry Niven
2,224 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
81
Persepolis Rising
by James S. A. Corey
2,039 members
79 reviews
4.2
82
Moving Mars
by Greg Bear
1,890 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
83
Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,735 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
84
Earthborn
by Orson Scott Card
1,686 members
11 reviews
3.2
85
A Gift from Earth
by Larry Niven
1,421 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
86
Treason
by Orson Scott Card
1,281 members
19 reviews
3.8
87
The Martians
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,103 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
88
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
by C. J. Cherryh
1,102 members
21 reviews
3.8
89
The Barsoom Project
by Larry Niven
1,003 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
90
Finity's End
by C. J. Cherryh
906 members
15 reviews
4
91
Hellburner
by C. J. Cherryh
901 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
92
The Fated Sky
by Mary Robinette Kowal
890 members
54 reviews
4.2
93
Colony
by Ben Bova
757 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
94
Voyage from Yesteryear
by James P. Hogan
704 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
95
Moonrise
by Ben Bova
682 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
96
The Quiet War
by Paul McAuley
597 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
97
The Seedling Stars
by James Blish
488 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
98
Orbital Resonance
by John Barnes
452 members
6 reviews
3.9
99
The Outposter
by Gordon R. Dickson
441 members
1 review
½ 3.5
100
Millennium
by Ben Bova
428 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3