Islands in the Sky

STANLEY SCHMIDT, Ph.D., is the Editor of Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine, for which he has received 16 Hugo Award nominations. He is the author of four novels, including Lifeboat Earth and Newton and the Quasi-Apple, and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Space Society. ROBERT ZUBRIN, Ph.D., is an astronautics engineer whose work has been profiled in Newsweek and Air & Space/Smithsonian magazines. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society.

Partial table of contents:; BREAKING THE BONDS OF THE EARTH; Comes the Revolution....(G; Stine); The Hypersonic Skyhook (R. Zubrin); STEPPING INTO THE SOLAR SYSTEM; Mars Direct: A Propasal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet (R. Zubrin & D. Baker); Inward Ho!; (S. Gillet); Alien Life Between Here and the Stars (R. Forward); CREATING NEW WORLDS; Terraforming Mars (R. Zubrin & C. McKay); A Planet Dweller's Dreams (M. Fogg); ADVANCED DRIVES AND INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL; To the Stars!; (G. Woodcock); The Magnetic Sail (R. Zubrin); The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust Velocity at Zero Energy Cost (J. Cramer); The Negative Matter Space Drive (R. Forward); References.