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John S. Lewis and Ruth A. Lewis, Space Resources: Breaking the Bonds of Earth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987).
C. Sagan and S. J. Ostro, “Long-Range Consequences of Interplanetary Collision Hazards,” Issues in Science and Technology (Summer 1994), pp. 67-72.
CHAPTER 19, REMAKING THE PLANETS
J. D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1969; first edition, 1929).
James B. Pollack and Carl Sagan, “Planetary Engineering,” in J. Lewis and M. Matthews, editors, Near-Earth Resources (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992).
CHAPTER 20, DARKNESS
Frank Drake and Dava Sobel, Is Anyone Out There? (New York: Delacorte, 1992).
Paul Horowitz and Carl Sagan, “Project META: A Five-Year All-Sky Narrowband Radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 415 (1992), pp. 218-235.
Thomas R. McDonough, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1987).
Carl Sagan, Contact: A Novel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985).
CHAPTER 21, TO THE SKY!
J. Richard Gott III, “Implications of the Copernican Principle for Our Future Prospects,” Nature, vol. 263 (1993), pp. 315-319.
CHAPTER 22, TIPTOEING THROUGH THE MILKY WAY
I. A. Crawford, “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers,” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 31 (1990), p. 377.
I. A. Crawford, “Space, World Government, and ‘The End of History,’ ” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, vol. 46 (1993), pp. 415-420.
Freeman J. Dyson, The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (London: Birkbeck College, 1972).
Ben R. Finney and Eric M. Jones, editors, Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: The Free Press, 1992).
Charles Lindholm, Charisma (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990). The comment on the need for a telos is in this book.
Eugene F. Mallove and Gregory L. Matloff, The Starflight Handbook (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1989).
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Comet (New York: Random House, 1985).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Most of the material in this book is new. A number of chapters have evolved from articles first published in Parade magazine, a supplement to the Sunday editions of American newspapers which, with an estimated 80 million readers, may be the most widely read magazine in the world. I am greatly indebted to Walter Anderson, the editor-in-chief, and David Currier, the executive editor, for their encouragement and editorial wisdom; and to the readers of Parade, whose letters have helped me understand where I have been clear, and where obscure, and how my arguments are received. Portions of other chapters have emerged from articles published in Issues in Science and Technology, Discover, The Planetary Report, Scientific American, and Popular Mechanics.
Aspects of this book have been discussed with a large number of friends and colleagues, whose comments have greatly improved it. Although there are too many to list by name, I would like to express my real gratitude to all of them. I want especially, though, to thank Norman Augustine, Roger Bonnet, Freeman Dyson, Louis Friedman, Everett Gibson, Daniel Goldin, J. Richard Gott III, Andrei Linde, Jon Lomberg, David Morrison, Roald Sagdeev, Steven Soter, Kip Throne, and Frederick Turner for their comments on all or part of the manuscript; Seth Kaufmann, Peter Thomas, and Joshua Grinspoon for their help with tables and graphs; and a brilliant array of astronomical artists, acknowledged at each illustration, who have permitted me to showcase some of their work. Through the generosity of Kathy Hoyt, AI McEwen, and Larry Soderblom, I’ve been able to display some of the exceptional photomosiacs, airbrush maps, and other reductions of NASA images accomplished at the Branch of Astrogeology, U.S. Geological Survey.
I am indebted to Andrea Barnett, Laurel Parker, Jennifer Bland, Loren Mooney, Karenn