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
357 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
3,038 members
31 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
stellarexplorer, jdfm
3
The Cosmic Connection
by Carl Sagan
1,047 members
9 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
821 members
15 reviews
4
3 Members
ABVR, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,jdfm
5
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
by Stanley Schmidt
79 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ABVR, pan0ramix
6
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension
by Albert A. Harrison
72 members
4
2 Members
jdfm, Bretzky1
7
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
3,917 members
268 reviews
4
3 Members
norabelle414, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,aulsmith ,jdfm
8
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
by Marshall T. Savage
222 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ABVR
9
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
by Paul Gilster
87 members
1 review
4.2
Member
stellarexplorer
10
Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience
by Ben R. Finney
81 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
stellarexplorer
11
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution
by Frank White
55 members
2
Member
stellarexplorer
12
Space settlements : a design study
by Richard D. Johnson
53 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.
13
Pioneering the Space Frontier
by Ted Simpson
46 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
33 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
200 members
1 review
3.8
23
Space Colonies (A Coevolution book)
by Stewart Brand
65 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
1,858 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Bloom
by Wil McCarthy
434 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
27
Clarke County, Space
by Allen Steele
371 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
28
Lunar Descent
by Allen Steele
313 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
29
New Earth: Rough Trails
by L. A. Graf
266 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
30
New Earth: The Flaming Arrow
by Kathy Oltion
254 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
31
New Earth: Thin Air
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
246 members
1 review
½ 3.6
32
New Earth: Challenger
by Diane Carey
245 members
1 review
3.8
33
Mars Plus
by Frederik Pohl
203 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
34
In the Mouth of the Whale
by Paul McAuley
139 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
35
First Landing
by Robert Zubrin
107 members
2 reviews
3.1
36
Welcome to Moonbase
by Ben Bova
94 members
1 review
½ 3.6
37
We
by John Dickinson
47 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Sleepers [short fiction]
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
4,485 members
71 reviews
3.9
41
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
8,673 members
186 reviews
3.8
42
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
by Gerard K. O'Neill
379 members
3 reviews
3.9
43
Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
4,892 members
55 reviews
3.9
44
Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
5,347 members
64 reviews
3.9
45
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
17,086 members
327 reviews
4
46
The Songs of Distant Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
3,474 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
47
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
9,053 members
418 reviews
4.1
48
Nemesis
by Isaac Asimov
3,652 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
49
The Annals of the Heechee
by Frederik Pohl
1,273 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
50
Heart of the Comet
by Gregory Benford
1,214 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
51
Semiosis
by Sue Burke
993 members
47 reviews
3.8
52
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
10,738 members
189 reviews
4.1
53
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,298 members
123 reviews
½ 3.4
54
Cities in Flight
by James Blish
1,836 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
55
Earthfall
by Orson Scott Card
1,830 members
14 reviews
½ 3.4
56
Coyote
by Allen Steele
833 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
57
The Exploration of Space
by Arthur C. Clarke
311 members
1 review
3.8
58
Dune
by Frank Herbert
45,167 members
705 reviews
½ 4.3
59
The Word for World Is Forest
by Ursula K. Le Guin
3,108 members
102 reviews
3.8
60
Downbelow Station
by C. J. Cherryh
2,889 members
71 reviews
3.8
61
Imperial Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
2,264 members
23 reviews
½ 3.5
62
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
2,176 members
137 reviews
3.9
63
Triton
by Samuel R. Delany
1,375 members
21 reviews
½ 3.5
64
Coyote Rising
by Allen Steele
501 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
65
Starshine
by G. S. Jennsen
221 members
6 reviews
3.9
66
How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books)
by Stephen Petranek
143 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
67
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
17,369 members
174 reviews
½ 3.7
68
Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert
14,651 members
102 reviews
3.8
69
Artemis: A Novel
by Andy Weir
6,529 members
381 reviews
½ 3.5
70
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
5,142 members
261 reviews
3.8
71
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
4,786 members
107 reviews
3.9
72
Caliban's War
by James S. A. Corey
4,577 members
195 reviews
4.1
73
The Last Colony
by John Scalzi
3,919 members
126 reviews
3.9
74
Abaddon's Gate
by James S. A. Corey
3,825 members
149 reviews
4.1
75
Embassytown
by China Miéville
3,537 members
221 reviews
3.9
76
Cibola Burn
by James S. A. Corey
3,125 members
124 reviews
4
77
Singularity Sky
by Charles Stross
3,060 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
78
Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
2,699 members
115 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Orphans of the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
2,512 members
40 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Integral Trees
by Larry Niven
2,271 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
81
Persepolis Rising
by James S. A. Corey
2,212 members
83 reviews
4.2
82
Moving Mars
by Greg Bear
1,918 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
83
Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,806 members
114 reviews
½ 3.7
84
Earthborn
by Orson Scott Card
1,723 members
11 reviews
3.2
85
A Gift from Earth
by Larry Niven
1,452 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
86
Treason
by Orson Scott Card
1,305 members
18 reviews
3.8
87
The Martians
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,132 members
21 reviews
½ 3.4
88
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
by C. J. Cherryh
1,124 members
22 reviews
3.8
89
The Barsoom Project
by Larry Niven
1,025 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
90
The Fated Sky
by Mary Robinette Kowal
930 members
54 reviews
4.2
91
Finity's End
by C. J. Cherryh
923 members
16 reviews
4
92
Hellburner
by C. J. Cherryh
920 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
93
Colony
by Ben Bova
776 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
94
Voyage from Yesteryear
by James P. Hogan
711 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
95
Moonrise
by Ben Bova
695 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
96
Regenesis
by C. J. Cherryh
638 members
20 reviews
3.9
97
The Quiet War
by Paul McAuley
609 members
26 reviews
½ 3.4
98
The Seedling Stars
by James Blish
505 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
99
Orbital Resonance
by John Barnes
464 members
7 reviews
3.9
100
The Outposter
by Gordon R. Dickson
456 members
1 review
½ 3.6