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
354 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
2,912 members
30 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
stellarexplorer, jdfm
3
The Cosmic Connection
by Carl Sagan
1,010 members
10 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
784 members
15 reviews
4
3 Members
ABVR, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,jdfm
5
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
by Stanley Schmidt
76 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
ABVR, pan0ramix
6
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension
by Albert A. Harrison
71 members
4
2 Members
jdfm, Bretzky1
7
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
3,765 members
263 reviews
4
3 Members
norabelle414, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,aulsmith ,jdfm
8
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
by Marshall T. Savage
217 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ABVR
9
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
by Paul Gilster
86 members
1 review
4.2
Member
stellarexplorer
10
Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience
by Ben R. Finney
75 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
stellarexplorer
11
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution
by Frank White
50 members
2
Member
stellarexplorer
12
Space Settlements: A Design Study
by Richard D. Johnson
49 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
47 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
31 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
194 members
1 review
3.8
23
Space Colonies (A Coevolution book)
by Stewart Brand
62 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
1,799 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Bloom
by Wil McCarthy
427 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
27
Clarke County, Space
by Allen Steele
364 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
28
Lunar Descent
by Allen Steele
305 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
29
New Earth: Rough Trails
by L. A. Graf
258 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
30
New Earth: The Flaming Arrow
by Kathy Oltion
240 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
31
New Earth: Thin Air
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
237 members
1 review
½ 3.6
32
New Earth: Challenger
by Diane Carey
236 members
1 review
3.8
33
Mars Plus
by Frederik Pohl
199 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
34
In the Mouth of the Whale
by Paul McAuley
135 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
35
First Landing
by Robert Zubrin
104 members
2 reviews
3
36
Welcome to Moonbase
by Ben Bova
92 members
1 review
½ 3.6
37
We
by John Dickinson
46 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Sleepers [short story]
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
4,337 members
73 reviews
3.9
41
Red Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
8,297 members
183 reviews
3.8
42
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
by Gerard K. O'Neill
360 members
3 reviews
3.9
43
Blue Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
4,736 members
55 reviews
3.9
44
Green Mars
by Kim Stanley Robinson
5,172 members
63 reviews
3.9
45
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
16,617 members
322 reviews
4
46
The Songs of Distant Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
3,367 members
56 reviews
½ 3.7
47
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
8,657 members
408 reviews
4.1
48
Nemesis
by Isaac Asimov
3,535 members
37 reviews
½ 3.6
49
The Annals of the Heechee
by Frederik Pohl
1,240 members
12 reviews
½ 3.5
50
Heart of the Comet
by Gregory Benford
1,190 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
51
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
10,420 members
183 reviews
4.1
52
2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2,183 members
121 reviews
½ 3.4
53
Earthfall
by Orson Scott Card
1,788 members
14 reviews
½ 3.4
54
Cities in Flight
by James Blish
1,768 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
55
Semiosis
by Sue Burke
892 members
37 reviews
3.8
56
Coyote
by Allen Steele
816 members
27 reviews
½ 3.6
57
The Exploration of Space
by Arthur C. Clarke
300 members
1 review
3.8
58
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,423 members
685 reviews
½ 4.3
59
Downbelow Station
by C. J. Cherryh
2,817 members
68 reviews
3.8
60
Imperial Earth
by Arthur C. Clarke
2,185 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
61
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
2,048 members
130 reviews
3.9
62
Triton
by Samuel R. Delany
1,331 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
63
Coyote Rising
by Allen Steele
494 members
11 reviews
3.8
64
Starshine
by G. S. Jennsen
202 members
6 reviews
3.8
65
How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books)
by Stephen Petranek
138 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
16,336 members
165 reviews
½ 3.7
67
Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert
13,813 members
97 reviews
½ 3.7
68
Artemis
by Andy Weir
5,916 members
353 reviews
½ 3.5
69
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
4,820 members
251 reviews
3.9
70
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
4,648 members
100 reviews
3.9
71
Caliban's War
by James S. A. Corey
4,135 members
181 reviews
4.1
72
The Last Colony
by John Scalzi
3,755 members
123 reviews
3.9
73
Abaddon's Gate
by James S. A. Corey
3,436 members
141 reviews
4.1
74
Embassytown
by China Miéville
3,403 members
214 reviews
3.9
75
Singularity Sky
by Charles Stross
3,019 members
69 reviews
½ 3.7
76
The Word for World is Forest
by Ursula K. Le Guin
2,900 members
94 reviews
3.8
77
Cibola Burn
by James S. A. Corey
2,839 members
119 reviews
4
78
Zoe's Tale
by John Scalzi
2,590 members
112 reviews
½ 3.7
79
Orphans of the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
2,445 members
39 reviews
½ 3.5
80
The Integral Trees
by Larry Niven
2,209 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
81
Persepolis Rising
by James S. A. Corey
1,979 members
78 reviews
4.1
82
Moving Mars
by Greg Bear
1,882 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
83
Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,719 members
106 reviews
½ 3.7
84
Earthborn
by Orson Scott Card
1,680 members
11 reviews
3.2
85
A Gift from Earth
by Larry Niven
1,417 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
86
Treason
by Orson Scott Card
1,277 members
19 reviews
3.8
87
The Martians
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,098 members
19 reviews
½ 3.4
88
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
by C. J. Cherryh
1,093 members
20 reviews
3.8
89
The Barsoom Project
by Larry Niven
997 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
90
Finity's End
by C. J. Cherryh
902 members
15 reviews
4
91
Hellburner
by C. J. Cherryh
894 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
92
The Fated Sky
by Mary Robinette Kowal
880 members
54 reviews
4.2
93
Colony
by Ben Bova
755 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
94
Voyage from Yesteryear
by James P. Hogan
699 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
95
Moonrise
by Ben Bova
681 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
96
The Quiet War
by Paul McAuley
596 members
25 reviews
½ 3.5
97
The Seedling Stars
by James Blish
484 members
8 reviews
½ 3.5
98
Orbital Resonance
by John Barnes
448 members
6 reviews
3.9
99
The Outposter
by Gordon R. Dickson
437 members
1 review
½ 3.5
100
Millennium
by Ben Bova
421 members
7 reviews
½ 3.3