Binary Star #3, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. ISBN: 0-440-10526-9
Featuring two great novellas in a single volume:
I only read Dr. Scofflaw, apparently in 1979, and again 45 years later, in 2024.
I’ve got an idea for Starship Troopers fan fiction. I’m giving it away, for free! You can have it!
The Peripheral, William Gibson, 2015. ISBN 0670921556.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, 2000, ISBN 978-0-316-46244-0, Orbit Books print edition 2020.
I recently read this book because I vaguely recalled reading it as a youngster. For the first third of the book, my recollection seemed correct, but then the book diverged from what I remembered. Maybe I didn’t read it back in the late 60s after all.
Space flight historian Michael J. Neufeld wrote an article about Wernher von Braun’s advocacy of space stations, Wernher von Braun’s Ultimate Weapon, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2007.
An expanded version of that article appeared as ‘‘Space superiority’’: Wernher von Braun’s campaign for a nuclear-armed space station, 1946–1956 in a journal, Space Policy, 22 (2006) 52-62
I watched the Star Trek (original!) episode The Enemy Within the other day.
Here’s a video (youtube of course) review of both Starship Troopers the movie, and Starship Troopers the book.
It’s long, but worth it.
The first workable proposal for a space program is apparently Wernher von Braun’s Project Mars. Project Mars is a work of fiction, but it lays out a space program that could probably take humans to Mars with the technology of 1955.
Project Mars (the book) didn’t see print until 2006, although it’s technical appendix was published as The Mars Project. in 1953.
