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MARTIAN SERIES: THRIVE & EXPLOITMicro Library Books Martian Series explores how our earthly ideas of design, language and imagination are not yet fit for purpose for a planet at once familiar and distinct from our own.
Thrive & Exploit, the third in the series, presents speculative Martian architecture including buildings imported from Earth and set down on Mars, re-design and re-engineering of our terrestrial way of living, and wholly new creations. Product details for Arrive & Explore:
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Looking back at ideas from the past about Mars in the future
“The expectation was that by the dawn of the twenty-first century the solar system would already be conquered and mapped and the galaxy as a whole would be preparing to welcome its discoverers.” - from ‘Stellar Epilogue’ in the history of the future, p.120.
We have a history of imagining what life would be like in the future and this includes living off-world on Mars. Books, documentaries, journals and magazines provide a historical archive of reflections and contemplations about a future of life on Mars. People have written about why, how and when we will get there. Accounts focus on setting a date for our arrival - giving greater weight to this than the subsequent stages of what Martian life may be like for us. Yet our success as a species would depend not just on getting to Mars, but on creating a stable and sustainable existence there. It’s this next chapter of our human story that is the playground for science fiction. Novels, films and comics revel in the Martian dream of how we could flourish on the red planet.
“The expectation was that by the dawn of the twenty-first century the solar system would already be conquered and mapped and the galaxy as a whole would be preparing to welcome its discoverers.” - from ‘Stellar Epilogue’ in the history of the future, p.120.
We have a history of imagining what life would be like in the future and this includes living off-world on Mars. Books, documentaries, journals and magazines provide a historical archive of reflections and contemplations about a future of life on Mars. People have written about why, how and when we will get there. Accounts focus on setting a date for our arrival - giving greater weight to this than the subsequent stages of what Martian life may be like for us. Yet our success as a species would depend not just on getting to Mars, but on creating a stable and sustainable existence there. It’s this next chapter of our human story that is the playground for science fiction. Novels, films and comics revel in the Martian dream of how we could flourish on the red planet.
Other books in the Martian Series:
ARRIVE & EXPLORE
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SURVIVE & EXPAND
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