SUGGESTED READING

Arny, Thomas, and Stephen Schneider. Explorations: An Introduction to Astronomy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2016.

Asimov, Isaac. Foundation. New York: Random House, 2004.

Barrat, James. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. New York: Thomas Dunn Books, 2013.

Benford, James, and Gregory Benford. Starship Century: Toward the Grandest Horizon. Middletown, DE: Microwave Sciences, 2013.

Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Brockman, John, ed. What to Think About Machines That Think. New York: Harper Perennial, 2015.

Clancy, Paul, Andre Brack, and Gerda Horneck. Looking for Life, Searching the Solar System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Comins, Neil, and William Kaufmann III. Discovering the Universe. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2008.

Davies, Paul. The Eerie Silence. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Freedman, Roger, Robert M. Geller, and William Kaufmann III. Universe. New York: W. H. Freeman, 2011.

Georges, Thomas M. Digital Soul: Intelligent Machines and Human Values. New York: Perseus Books, 2003.

Gilster, Paul. Centauri Dreams. New York: Springer Books, 2004.

Golub, Leon, and Jay Pasachoff. The Nearest Star. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Grinspoon, David. Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

Impey, Chris. Beyond: Our Future in Space. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016.

———. The Living Cosmos: Our Search for Life in the Universe. New York: Random House, 2007.

Kaku, Michio. The Future of the Mind. New York: Anchor Books, 2014.

———. The Physics of the Future. New York: Anchor Books, 2011.

———. Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century. New York: Anchor Books, 1999.

Kasting, James. How to Find a Habitable Planet. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Lemonick, Michael D. Mirror Earth: The Search for Our Planet’s Twin. New York: Walker and Co., 2012.

———. Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Lewis, John S. Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy. Mountain View, CA: Deep Space Industries, 2014.

Neufeld, Michael. Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.

O’Connell, Mark. To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death. New York: Doubleday Books, 2016.

Odenwald, Sten. Interstellar Travel: An Astronomer’s Guide. New York: The Astronomy Cafe, 2015.

Petranek, Stephen L. How We’ll Live on Mars. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Sasselov, Dimitar. The Life of Super-Earths. New York: Basic Books, 2012.

Scharf, Caleb, The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

Seeds, Michael, and Dana Backman. Foundations of Astronomy. Boston: Books/Cole, 2013.

Shostak, Seth. Confessions of an Alien Hunter. New York: Kindle eBooks, 2009.

Stapledon, Olaf. Star Maker. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2008.

Summers, Michael, and James Trefil. Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2017.

Thorne, Kip. The Science of “Interstellar.” New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.

Vance, Ashlee, and Fred Sanders. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. New York: HarperCollins, 2015.

Wachhorst, Wyn. The Dream of Spaceflight. New York: Perseus Books, 2000.

Wohlforth, Charles, and Amanda R. Hendrix. Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.

Woodward, James F. Making Starships and Stargates: The Science of Interstellar Transport and Absurdly Benign Wormholes. New York: Springer, 2012.

Zubrin, Robert. The Case for Mars. New York: Free Press, 2011.