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Bibliography for Transhuman Space

This bibliography concentrates on works of fact and fiction that may prove useful in inspiring adventures and campaigns.

Popular Science and Futurism

• Darwinizing Culture, edited by Robert Aunger.
• The Electric Meme: A New Theory of How We Think, by Robert Aunger.
• Combat Fleets of the World, 2000-2001, by A.D. Baker III. See also the more recent The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, 15th Edition, by Eric Wertheim.
• The Discovery of the Titanic, by Robert D. Ballard.
• The Eternal Darkness, by Robert D. Ballard.
• Explorations, by Robert D. Ballard.
• The New Solar System, Fourth Edition, edited by J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Peterson, and Andrew Chaikin.
• The World, The Flesh, and the Devil (2nd Edition), by J.D. Bernal.
• The Meme Machine, by Susan J. Blackmore and Richard Dawkins.
• Whales of the World, by Nigel Bonner.
• The Spike: How Our Lives are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies, by Damien Broderick.
• Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme, by Richard Brodie.
• Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, by Rodney Brooks.
• Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI, by Rodney Brooks.
• The Blue Planet, by Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, and Martha Holmes. Companion book to the miniseries (below).
• The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid.
• The Cerebral Symphony, by William Calvin.
• Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance by B.C. Crandall.
• El Niño, by Ross Couper-Johnston.
• Dolphins, by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Phillipe Diolé.
• The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins.
• The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, by Richard Dawkins.
• Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds, by Daniel Dennett.
• Underwater Diving: Basic Techniques, by Peter Dick and David Sisman
• Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler.
• Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation by K. Eric Drexler.
• Unbounding the Future by K. Eric Drexler, Chris Peterson and Gayle Pergamit.
• Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics, by Gregory Dudek.
• Meteorology, 2nd Edition, by Joe R. Eagleman.
• Sea Change, by Sylvia A. Earle.
• Encyclopedia of the Sea, by Richard Ellis.
• Mirror Matter: Pioneering Antimatter Physics, by Robert Forward and Joel Davis.
• The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems, 1997-1998, by Norman Friedman. The fifth edition is more recent (2006).
• Nanomedicine Volume 1: Basic Capabilities, by Robert A. Freitas Jr.
• The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Seven Tenths, by James Hamilton-Paterson, published in the United States as The Great Deep.
• Mission To Saturn: Cassini and the Huygens Probe, by David M. Harland.
• Colonies in Space, by T.A. Heppenheimer.
• Space Settlements: A Design Study, edited by Richard D. Johnson and Charles Holbrow.
• Visions, by Michio Kaku.
• Prospects in Nanotechnology: Towards Molecular Manufacturing, by Markus Krummenacker, edited by James Lewis.
• The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil.
• Gene Future: The Promise and Perils of the New Biology, by Thomas F. Lee.
• World Atlas of the Oceans, by Manfred Leier.
• Mining the Sky, by John S. Lewis.
• Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives by James Lewis, edited by B.C. Crandall.
• Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight, by K.F. Long.
• Lifting Titan's Veil: Exploring the Giant Moon of Saturn, by Ralph Lorenz and Jaqueline Mitton.
• Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society, by Aaron Lynch.
• Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos and Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth, by Greg L. Matloff, Les Johnson, and C Bangs.
• The Big Book of Conspiracies, edited by Doug Moench.
• Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, by Hans Moravec.
• Robot: Mere Machines to Transcendent Mind, by Hans Moravec.
• Introduction to AI Robotics, by Robin R. Murphy.
• The High Frontier, Third Edition, by Gerald K. O'Neill.
• 2081: A Hopeful View of the Future, by Gerald K. O'Neill.
• Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds, by Gregory S. Paul, and Earl Cox.
• How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker.
• The Oceans, by Ellen J. Prager with Sylvia A. Earle.
• Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, by Ed Regis.
• Nano: The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology, by Ed Regis.
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, by Howard Rheingold.
• Jane's Fighting Ships 2001-2002, by Stephen Saunders. See also the current edition.
• The Millennial Project, by Marshall T. Savage.
• Islands in the Sky, edited by Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin.
• Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family, by Lee M. Silver.
• Exploring Ocean Science, 2nd Edition, by Keith Stowe.
• The Third Millenium: A History of the World, AD 2000-3000, by Brian Stableford and David Langford.
• Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years, by Bruce Sterling.
• The Third Industrial Revolution, by G. Harry Stine.
• Redesigning Humans, by Gregory Stock.
• Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
• Essentials of Oceanography, 3rd Edition, by Harold V. Thurman. See also the current edition, by Alan P. Trujillo and Harold V. Thurman.
• The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow, by Alvin Toffler.
• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, United Nations. See also Bernaerts' Guide to this convention.
• U.S. Navy Diving Manual, by U.S. Department of the Navy.
• Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel, by Giovanni Vulpetti and Les Johnson.
• The Deep Sea, by Joseph Wallace.
• Sea and Air, 2nd Edition, by Jerome Williams, John J. Higginson, and John D. Rohrbough.
• Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization, by Robert Zubrin.
• The Case for Mars, by Robert Zubrin and Richard Wagner.

Fiction

• Harvest of Stars, The Stars Are Also Fire, Harvest the Fire, and The Fleet of Stars, by Poul Anderson.
• The "Culture" series: Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, Excession, and Look to Windward, by Iain Banks.
• Candle, by John Barnes.
• Heads, by Greg Bear.
• Queen of Angels, by Greg Bear.
• Moving Mars, by Greg Bear.
• / (Slant), by Greg Bear.
• Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children, by Greg Bear.
• The Seedling Stars, by James Blish.
• Earth, by David Brin.
• Otherness, by David Brin.
• The Fortunate Fall, by Raphael Carter.
• New Atlantis, by Earl E. Clark.
• The Deep Range, by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Nanotech, by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (editors).
• Ribofunk, by Paul Di Filippo.
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow.
• When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss, by George Alec Effinger.
• Quarantine, by Greg Egan.
• Axiomatic, by Greg Egan.
• Distress, by Greg Egan.
• Permutation City, by Greg Egan.
• Diaspora: A Novel, by Greg Egan.
• Firestar, Rogue Star, Lodestar, Falling Stars, and The Wreck of The River of Stars, by Michael Flynn.
• Indistinguishable from Magic, by Robert L. Forward.
• Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson.
• Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman.
• Mindstar Rising, A Quantum Murder, and The Nano Flower, by Peter Hamilton. The first two books have been collected as an omnibus volume.
• A Deeper Sea, by Alexander Jablokov.
• War Games, by Karl Hansen.
• Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride, by Nancy Kress.
• Terminal Café, by Ian McDonald.
• The "Fall Revolution" series: The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and The Sky Road, by Ken MacLeod. Also available as two omnibus volumes.
• Fairyland, by Paul McAuley.
• The Bohr Maker, by Linda Nagata.
• Limit of Vision, by Linda Nagata.
• Vast, by Linda Nagata.
• Dream Park, The Barsoom Project, The California Voodoo Game, and The Moon Maze Game, by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes.
• The Descent of Anansi and Saturn's Race, by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes.
• Gaia's Toys, by Rebecca Ore.
• The Silicon Man, by Charles Platt.
• Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Software, Realware, Wetware, and Freeware, by Rudy Rucker. Also available as a 4-in-1 omnibus volume.
• Blueheart, by Alison Sinclair.
• Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, and The Fountains of Youth, by Brian Stableford.
• The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson.
• Holy Fire, by Bruce Sterling.
• Heavy Weather, by Bruce Sterling.
• Schismatrix Plus, by Bruce Sterling.
• Distraction: A Novel, by Bruce Sterling.
• Toast and Wireless, by Charlie Stross.
• Vacuum Flowers, by Michael Swanwick.
• The Ophiuchi Hotline, by John Varley.
• Steel Beach, by John Varley.
• The Golden Globe, by John Varley.
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne.
• Across Realtime, by Vernor Vinge. An omnibus containing The Peace War, the short story "The Ungoverned," and Marooned in Realtime.
• A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, and The Children of the Sky, by Vernor Vinge.
• Starfish, by Peter Watts.
• The Martian, by Andy Weir.
• Voice of the Whirlwind, by Walter Jon Williams.
• Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, by George Zebrowski.

Comics and Manga

• Transmetropolitan, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson.
• Appleseed, by Masamune Shirow. Four volumes: The Promethean Challenge, Prometheus Unbound, The Scales of Prometheus, and The Promethean Balance.
• Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor, and Ghost in the Shell 2 – Man/Machine Interface, by Masamune Shirow.
• The Dirty Pair: Run from the Future, by Adam Warren.
• Planetes, by Makoto Yukimura.

Software

Desktop Planetarium

• RedShift, by Maris Technologies.
• NASA Near Earth Object Orbits Software. A 3D orbit visualizer for thousands of NEOs.
• Planet's Orbits, by Alcyone Software. Shareware digital orrery software.
• Celestia, by Chris Laurel. A constantly updated freeware astronomical object simulator (among other things). All the major objects in the solar system are included, as are virtually all of the smaller ones.

Flight Simulator

• X-Plane, by Laminar Research. A continuously evolving flight simulator that can be tweaked. See their section on using it for flight simulations on Mars.
• Orbiter, by Martin Schweiger. A shareware flight and orbital dynamics simulator. Very impressive graphics and expandability.

Online Resources

The Transhuman Space web page at www.sjgames.com/transhuman/links.html maintains updated links to online documents and web pages relating to both transhumanism and space colonization.