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
351 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
2,829 members
27 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
stellarexplorer, jdfm
3
The Cosmic Connection
by Carl Sagan
987 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
765 members
13 reviews
4
3 Members
ABVR, stellarexplorer, Bretzky1,jdfm
5
Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space
by Stanley Schmidt
75 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
ABVR, pan0ramix
6
Spacefaring: The Human Dimension
by Albert A. Harrison
71 members
4
2 Members
jdfm, Bretzky1
7
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
by Marshall T. Savage
213 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ABVR
8
Centauri Dreams: Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
by Paul Gilster
84 members
1 review
4.2
Member
stellarexplorer
9
Interstellar Migration and the Human Experience
by Ben R. Finney
73 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
stellarexplorer
10
The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution
by Frank White
49 members
2
Member
stellarexplorer
11
Space Settlements: A Design Study
by Richard D. Johnson
48 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.
12
Pioneering the Space Frontier
by Ted Simpson
47 members
4
Member
LoreleiOrion
13
2001: Building for Space Travel
by John Zukowsky
34 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
14
Habitable Planets for Man
by Stephen H. Dole
31 members
½ 4.4
Member
aulsmith
15
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
16
Planets for Man
by Stephen H. Dole
18 members
½ 4.5
Member
aulsmith
17
Interior Pedestrian Places
by Michael J. Bednar
8 members
4
Member
aulsmith
18
Space Resources and Space Settlements (NASA SP-428)
by Gerard K. O'Neill
7 members
3.8
Member
aulsmith
19
Symposium on human problems in the utilization of fallout shelter
by George W. Baker
1 member
1 review
4
Member
aulsmith
20
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
3,672 members
257 reviews
4
2 Members
norabelle414, stellarexplorer,aulsmith ,jdfm
21
Colonies in Space
by T. A. Heppenheimer
188 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
1,766 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Bloom
by Wil McCarthy
423 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
27
Clarke County, Space
by Allen Steele
359 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
28
Lunar Descent
by Allen Steele
304 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
29
New Earth: Rough Trails
by L. A. Graf
255 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
30
New Earth: The Flaming Arrow
by Kathy Oltion
237 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
31
New Earth: Thin Air
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
233 members
1 review
½ 3.6
32
New Earth: Challenger
by Diane Carey
232 members
1 review
3.8
33
Mars Plus
by Frederik Pohl
197 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
34
In the Mouth of the Whale
by Paul McAuley
134 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
35
First Landing
by Robert Zubrin
104 members
2 reviews
3
36
Welcome to Moonbase
by Ben Bova
90 members
1 review
½ 3.6
37
We
by John Dickinson
46 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
38
Worlds Beyond
by Larry Geis
18 members
½ 1.5
39
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Philip K. Dick
4,240 members
71 reviews
3.9
40
Semiosis
by Sue Burke
841 members
35 reviews
3.8
41
The Exploration of Space
by Arthur C. Clarke
292 members
1 review
3.8
42
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
1,962 members
125 reviews
3.9
43
How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books)
by Stephen Petranek
133 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
44
Artemis
by Andy Weir
5,561 members
331 reviews
½ 3.5
45
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
4,614 members
239 reviews
3.9
46
Caliban's War
by James S. A. Corey
3,878 members
170 reviews
4.1
47
Abaddon's Gate
by James S. A. Corey
3,220 members
134 reviews
4.1
48
Cibola Burn
by James S. A. Corey
2,674 members
115 reviews
4
49
Persepolis Rising
by James S. A. Corey
1,813 members
73 reviews
4.2
50
Aurora
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,659 members
100 reviews
½ 3.7
51
The Fated Sky
by Mary Robinette Kowal
826 members
50 reviews
4.2
52
The Final Six
by Alexandra Monir
261 members
11 reviews
3.8
54
The third industrial revolution
by G. Harry Stine
71 members
1 review
½ 3.6
55
Toward Distant Suns
by T. A. Heppenheimer
59 members
½ 3.5
56
The Road to the Stars
by Iain Nicolson
56 members
2.8
58
Leviathan Wakes
by James S. A. Corey
6,965 members
333 reviews
4
59
The Foundation Trilogy
by Isaac Asimov
6,445 members
84 reviews
½ 4.3
60
The Mote in God's Eye
by Larry Niven
6,197 members
107 reviews
3.9
61
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
5,705 members
353 reviews
4
62
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers
5,091 members
344 reviews
4
63
Ancillary Sword
by Ann Leckie
2,842 members
167 reviews
4
64
Nemesis Games
by James S. A. Corey
2,295 members
95 reviews
4.2
65
Babylon's Ashes
by James S. A. Corey
2,064 members
78 reviews
4
66
Tiamat's Wrath
by James S. A. Corey
1,436 members
52 reviews
½ 4.3
67
Children of Ruin
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
1,140 members
34 reviews
3.9
68
Regenesis
by C. J. Cherryh
604 members
19 reviews
3.9
69
The Shadow Within
by Jeanne Cavelos
414 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
70
Blood Oath
by John Vornholt
316 members
2 reviews
2.9
71
Clark's Law
by Jim Mortimore
311 members
2.9
72
Babylon 5: In the Beginning
by Peter David
270 members
1 review
½ 3.6
73
Goliath
by Tochi Onyebuchi
232 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
74
Interference
by Sue Burke
216 members
7 reviews
3.8
75
Imagined Worlds
by Freeman Dyson
206 members
4 reviews
4
76
Starshine
by G. S. Jennsen
196 members
6 reviews
3.8
77
Skylife: Space Habitats in Story and Science
by Gregory Benford
83 members
1 review
½ 3.6
78
The High Road
by Ben Bova
66 members
½ 3.4
79
ITN Book of the Race to Mars
by Frank Miles
52 members
3
80
Space Frontier
by Wernher von Braun
50 members
3.1
81
New Earths : Transforming Other Planets for Humanity
by James Edward Oberg
30 members
4
82
Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century
by W. W. Mendell
11 members
½ 4.5
83
Amaranthe I: Rise (Amaranthe Collections Book 1)
by G. S. Jennsen
9 members
84
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
20,019 members
374 reviews
4
85
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
18,747 members
466 reviews
4
86
Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov
12,731 members
152 reviews
4
87
Foundation's Edge
by Isaac Asimov
9,791 members
80 reviews
3.8
88
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
9,214 members
244 reviews
4
89
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
8,676 members
140 reviews
4
90
Heretics of Dune
by Frank Herbert
8,204 members
51 reviews
½ 3.7
91
Prelude to Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
8,118 members
96 reviews
½ 3.7
92
Cosmos: The Story of Cosmic Evolution, Science and Civilisation
by Carl Sagan
8,102 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
93
Foundation and Earth
by Isaac Asimov
7,958 members
72 reviews
3.8
94
Chapterhouse: Dune
by Frank Herbert
7,662 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
95
Solaris
by Stanisław Lem
6,401 members
153 reviews
3.9
96
A Fire upon the Deep
by Vernor Vinge
6,246 members
136 reviews
4.1
97
Forward the Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
5,750 members
57 reviews
3.8
98
Burning Chrome
by William Gibson
5,501 members
43 reviews
3.9
99
All Systems Red
by Martha Wells
4,953 members
318 reviews
4.1
100
The Algebraist
by Iain M. Banks
4,217 members
95 reviews
3.8