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| 1978 |
| 1
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This Space for Rent
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Joe Haldeman
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| 2
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Salute to Salyut
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James Oberg
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| 3
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The Disposal of Nuclear Waste in Space: Will It Ever Be Feasible?
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Michael McCollum
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| 1979 |
| 1
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Build Your Own A-Bomb and Wake Up the Neighborhood
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George W. Harper
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| 2
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The Spaceport
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Roger Arnold
and
Donald Kingsbury
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| 3
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Funding the Future
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M. David Stone
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| 4
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Future Food
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David Ritchie
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| 5
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American Enthusiasm for Spaceflight
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William Sims Bainbridge
and
Richard Wyckoff
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| 1980 |
| 1
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Demythologizing the Black Hole
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Richard Matzner
and
Tsvi Piran
and
Tony Rothman
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| 2
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A Taste of Dragon's Egg
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Robert L. Forward
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| 2
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Death Risk
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Milton A. Rothman
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| 3
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Man's Biological Future
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L. Sprague de Camp
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| 4
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Steamer Time (Again?)
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Wallace West
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| 1981 |
| 1
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Extraterrestrial Zoology
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Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
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| 2
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Base Eight Arithmetic, Meteors, and Man
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John Gribbin
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| 3
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Mars in 1995!
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Bob Parkinson
and
David Hardy
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| 4
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Mercury's Missing Divot
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J. E. Enever
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| 1982 |
| 1
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New Communications Technologies and the Developing World
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Arthur C. Clarke
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| 2
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Exploring the Asteroids
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Joel A. Davis
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| 3
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Alien Sex
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Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
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| 4
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Space Transportation: You Can Get There From Here!
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Gordon R. Woodcock
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| 5
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The Inner Five
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George W. Harper
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| 1983 |
| 1
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The Blivit in the B-Ring
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Richard C. Hoagland
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| 2
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Xenology: The New Science of Asking, "Who's Out There?"
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David Brin
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| 3
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To the Stars!
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Gordon R. Woodcock
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| 4
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Science and Creation
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Poul Anderson
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| 5
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Flattening Spacetime
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Robert L. Forward
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| 1984 |
| 1
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The Deadly Thing at 2.4 Kiloparsecs
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David Brin
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| 2
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Advanced Machining in Ancient Egypt
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Christopher P. Dunn
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| 3
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Axes, Saws, and Alphabets
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Margaret R. Bishop
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| 4
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Xenopsychology
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Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
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| 5
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The Galaxy Before Man
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Thomas Donaldson
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| 1985 |
| 1
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Just How Dangerous Is the Galaxy?
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David Brin
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| 2
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The Postdiluvian World
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 3
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Russians to Mars
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James E. Oberg
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| 4
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The Lost Dimensions of Reality
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John Gribbin
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| 5
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Hot Rocks and Water
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Richard Patrick Terra
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| 1986 |
| 1
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The Long Stern Chase: A Speculative Exercise
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Rick Cook
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| 2
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The Curious Case of the Humanoid Face--On Mars
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Richard C. Hoagland
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| 3
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A Little More Pollution, Please!
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George W. Harper
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| 4
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Making Star Trek Real
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James R. Powell
and
Charles Pellegrino
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| 5
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Fermi Paradox--The Final Solution?
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Duncan Lunan
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| |
| 1987 |
| 1
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Nanotechnology
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Eric Drexler
and
Chris Peterson
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| 2
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Memetics and the Modular Mind: Modeling the Development of Social Movements
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H. Keith Henson
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| 3
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Moonbase Orientation Manual I: Transport and Manufacturing
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Ben Bova
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| 3
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Moonbase Orientation Manual II: Research and Recreation
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Ben Bova
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| 4
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Universe—The Ultimate Artifact ?
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Richard D. Meisner
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| 5
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Cheap But Not Dirty: Proposal for a Spaceplane
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Dan DeLong
and
Tom Pace
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| |
| 1988 |
| 1
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An Introduction to Psychohistory (Part 1 of 2)
(variant of An Introduction to Psychohistory)
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Michael F. Flynn
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| 1
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An Introduction to Psychohistory (Part 2 of 2)
(variant of An Introduction to Psychohistory)
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Michael F. Flynn
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| 2
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Extraterrestrial Intelligence and The Interdict Hypothesis
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Martyn J. Fogg
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| 3
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24th Century Medicine
|
Thomas Donaldson
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| 4
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Building a Better Biosphere
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Greg Stec
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| 5
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Laughing All the Way to Orbit
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Wilfred C. Smith
and
G. Harry Stine
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| |
| 1989 |
| 1
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The Ape-Man Within Us
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L. Sprague de Camp
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| 2
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Zero Gravity and the Immune System: A Challenge to Man's Survival in Space
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Dr. J. Kevin Steele
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| 3
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On Building an Earth-Like Planet
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 4
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Hypermedia and the Singularity
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Marc Stiegler
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| 5
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The Economics of Interstellar Commerce
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Warren Salomon
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| |
| 1990 |
| 1
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Sixty Astounding Years
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Michael F. Flynn
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| 2
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New Hopes for a Very Old Disease: Cancer Therapies for the 1990s
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Dr. J. Kevin Steele
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| 2
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Where Buffalo Roam ...
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John Gribbin
and
Mary Gribbin
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| 4
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Nuclear Rocketry using Indigenous Propellants: The Key to the Solar System
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Robert Zubrin
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| 4
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Scientific Diversions
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Margaret L. Silbar
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| 6
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Taking the Shuttle to the Moon
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Chris Vuille, Ph.D.
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| 7
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Fire, Brimstone - And Maybe Life?
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 1991 |
| 1
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The Mote in NASA's Eye
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Charles Sheffield
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| 2
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Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet
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David A. Baker
and
Robert M. Zubrin
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| 3
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Global Catastrophes amd Mass Extinctions
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Jeff Hecht
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| 4
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Hydrogen Time
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Marc Davenport
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| 4
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Whatever Happened to the Little Ice Age?
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John Gribbin
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| 6
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Once and Future Mars
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Martyn J. Fogg
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| 1992 |
| 1
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The Demon Under Hawaii
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Geoffrey A. Landis
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| 2
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Manufacturing Magic
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Arlan Andrews
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| 3
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Chicxulub: The Smoking K-T Gun?
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 4
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The Magnetic Sail
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Robert M. Zubrin
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| 5
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A Visit to SupraJupiter
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Paul Birch
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| 1993 |
| 1
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Single Stage to Infinity!
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Dr. Arlan Andrews, Sr.
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| 2
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Fat-Eating Logic Bombs and the Vampire Worm
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Michael F. Flynn
and
Edward Rietman
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| 3
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Comes the Revolution ...
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G. Harry Stine
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| 4
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Goat Island
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L. Sprague de Camp
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| 5
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Is AIDS an Autoimmune Disease?
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Dr. J. Kevin Steele
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| 1994 |
| 1
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The Rooster Crows at White Sands
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G. Harry Stine
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| 2
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The Bug, the Mouse, and Chapter 24
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Charles L. Harness
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| 3
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Return to the Moon
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Buzz Aldrin
and
Aleta Jackson
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| 4
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How to Find a Starship
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Robert M. Zubrin
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| 5
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Multiple Comet Strikes on Jupiter
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Peter L. Manly
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| |
| 1995 |
| 1
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A Handful of Heresies
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Charles Sheffield
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| 2
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Fact-Free Science
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James P. Hogan
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| 3
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The Martian Frontier
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Robert M. Zubrin
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| 4
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Faster-Than-Light
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Robert L. Forward
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| 5
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Black Horse: One Stop to Orbit
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Mitchell Burnside Clapp
and
Robert M. Zubrin
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| 5
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The Artemis Project: Selling the Moon
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Gregory Bennett
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| 1996 |
| 1
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The Coming of the Money Card: Boon or Bane?
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Ian Randal Strock
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| 2
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Prospectus
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Tom Ligon
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| 3
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Population, the Demographic Transition, and "Biological Imperatives"
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 3
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Trapped Between Damnations: The True Meaning of the Population Crisis
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Thomas A. Easton
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| 4
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Will They Let the Spaceships Fly?
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G. Harry Stine
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| 5
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The Future of Computers
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Robert A. Freitas, Jr.
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| 1997 |
| 1
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Cosmological Darwinism
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Richard D. Meisner
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| 2
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Paradigm Shifty Things
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Jeffery D. Kooistra
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| 3
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Just How "Average" is the Solar System?
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 4
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Biology at the Extremes
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Mark S. Lesney
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| 5
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Cold Fusion: The "Miracle" is No Mistake
|
Dr. Eugene F. Mallove
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| 1998 |
| 1
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The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor
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Tom Ligon
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| 2
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Pathfinder Journal: Adventures in the Mars Business
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Geoffrey A. Landis
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| 3
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Near-Term Nanotechnology
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 4
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Sex in Space: The Fantasy and the Reality
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H. G. Stratmann
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| 5
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Biological Hazards and Medical Care in Space
|
H. G. Stratmann
and
G. David Nordley
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| 1999 |
| 1
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Beamriders
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G. David Nordley
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| 1
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Planets X
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 2
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Unresources
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 3
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Diamond Ether, Nanotechnology, and Venus
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 4
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Tricorders, Yactograms, and the Future of Analytical Chemistry
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 2000 |
| 1
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Slowboat to the Stars!
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Ben Bova
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| 2
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Limits to Evolution
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Ashley J. R. Carter
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| 3
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Interstellar Navigation
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John G. Hemry
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| 4
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Summer's Lease
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J. R. Dunn
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| 5
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The Patent Wars
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John D. Trudel
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| |
| 2001 |
| 1
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Up in Smoke: How Mt. St. Helens Blasted Conventional Scientific Wisdom
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 2
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He Who Carried the Moon
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Dean McLaughlin
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| 3
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When Light Speed Isn't Fast Enough: Creating Superluminal Supercomputers
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Dr. Casimer DeCusatis
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| 4
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Stemming the Tide of Aging and Disease
|
Kyle Kirkland
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| 5
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Water, Pink Salt, and Cold Dry Gullies: Halobacteria and the Case for Life on Mars
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Geoffrey A. Landis
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| 2002 |
| 1
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Galactic Society
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Robert Zubrin
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| 2
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A Question of Immortality
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William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.
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| 3
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Beyond the Periodic Table: Artificial Atoms and Programmable Matter
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Wil McCarthy
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| 4
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The Tell-Tale Brain
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Kyle Kirkland
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| 5
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Are We Afraid of a Little Fire? Exploring Space May Require Nuclear Rockets
|
Dr. Steven D. Howe
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| 2003 |
| 1
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If a Tree Falls... or, The Secret History of Global Environmental Catastrophe
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Catherine H. Shaffer
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| 2
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Isaac Was Right: N Equals One
|
Ben Bova
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| 3
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The Power of Rotting Plants, or How SF Solved Global Warming
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Gregory Benford
and
Martin I. Hoffert
and
Robert A. Metzger
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| 4
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Moving Beyond "Life As We Know It": Astrobiology Takes On "Earthist-Centricity"
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 5
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Oceans
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 2004 |
| 1
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Open Minds, Open Source
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Eric S. Raymond
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| 2
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Fat Mice, Eating Machines, and Biochemical Treason
|
Richard A. Lovett, Ph.D.
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| 3
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The Fifth Biorevolution
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 4
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The Transience of Memory: We Really Can Remember It for You Wholesale
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 5
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Forensic Seismology: The Big Science of Minor Shake-Ups
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| |
| 2005 |
| 1
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Mission to Utah: A Science Fiction Writer's Adventures at the Mars Society Desert Research Station
|
Wil McCarthy
|
| 2
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The Prehistory of Global Climate Change
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Richard A. Lovett
|
| 3
|
Big Brother Inc: Surveillance, Security and the US Citizen
|
Laura M. Kelley
|
| 4
|
Gene Doping and Other Olympic Scandals of the (Not-So-Distant) Future
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 5
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Where Are They?
|
Thomas Donaldson
|
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| 2006 |
| 1
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The Great Sumatran Earthquakes of 2004-5
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 2
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From Fimbulwinter to Dante's Hell: The Strange Saga of Snowball Earth
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 3
|
Solar System Commuter Trains: MagBeam Plasma Propulsion
|
Kathy Ferguson
and
James Grayson
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| 4
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Pollution, Solutions, Elution, and Nanotechnology
|
Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 5
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Floatworlds
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Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
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| 2007 |
| 1
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The Ice Age That Wasn't
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 2
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De Revolutione Scientarium In "Media Tempestas"
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Michael F. Flynn
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| 3
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After Gas: Are We Ready for the End of Oil?
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 4
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The Search for the World's First Equestrians
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 5
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Beyond This Point Be RFIDs
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| |
| 2008 |
| 1
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The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisited
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Tom Ligon
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| 2
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The 3D Trainwreck: How 3D Printing Will Shake Up Manufacturing
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Thomas A. Easton
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| 3
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Nuclear Autumn: The Consequences of a "Small" Nuclear War
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 3
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The Challenge of the Anthropic Universe
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Carl Frederick
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| 5
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Here Be There Dragons: The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker and Other Mysteries of an Explored Planet
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 2009 |
| 1
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From Atlantis to Canoe-Eating Trees: Geomythology Comes of Age
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 2
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Geology, Geohistory, and "Psychohistory": The (Continuing) Debate Between Uniformitarians and Catastrophists
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 3
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Plate Tectonics, Goldilocks, and the Late Heavy Bombardment: Why Earth Isn't Mars or Venus
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 4
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The Psychology of Space Travel
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Nick Kanas, M.D.
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| 5
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Futuropolis: How NASA Plans to Create a Permanent Presence on the Moon
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Michael Carroll
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| 2010 |
| 1
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Tips for the Budget Time-Traveler
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Shane Tourtellotte
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| 2
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Visit to the Forgotten Planet: What Scientists are Learning as MESSENGER Prepares to Orbit Mercury
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 3
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Phantom Science: The Facts Behind "Phantom Sense"
|
Richard A. Lovett
and
Mark Niemann-Ross
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| 4
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What's in a Kiss? The Wild, Wonderful World of Philematology
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 5
|
Take Off Your Hat: You're In the Presence of Culture
|
Stephen R. Balzac
|
| |
| 2011 |
| 1
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Smart SETI
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Gregory Benford
and
James Benford
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| 2
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Lost in Space? Follow the Money
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 3
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Say What? Ruminations About Language, Communications, and Science Fiction
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 4
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Before You Get to String Theory
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C. W. Johnson
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| 5
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Poisons, Temperature, and Climate Change: Will Global Warming Make Everything Else Worse?
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
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| 2012 |
| 1
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Faster Than a Speeding Photon: The Why, Where, and (Perhaps) How of Faster-Than-Light Technology
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 2
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Is the Moon a Babel Fish?
|
John Gribbin
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| 3
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The Day the Sun Exploded
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 4
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Planets (Oops, Planetoids) X, Y, Z, and W: What the Kuiper Belt Teaches About the Dawn of the Solar System
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Richard A. Lovett
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| 5
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The Earth Dies Screaming: Radiation Threats From Beyond
|
Adrian L. Melott
|
| |
| 2013 |
| 1
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The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down-and-Dirty Mud-Wrassle
|
Michael F. Flynn
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| 2
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The Golden Age Comes to Seattle: Is Asteroid Mining Really Part of Our Near Future?
|
Richard A. Lovett
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| 3
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Alien Worlds: Not in Kansas Any More
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 4
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Galactic Cannibalism: Who's on the Menu
|
H. G. Stratmann
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| 5
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Alien Aliens: Beyond Rubber Suits
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| |
| 2014 |
| 1
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Lockstep: A Possible Galactic Empire
|
Karl Schroeder
|
| 2
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Saturn's "Jet-Propelled" Moon and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 2
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Spanking Bad Data Won't Make Them Behave
|
Michael F. Flynn
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| 3
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Alien AWOLs: The Great Silence
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 3
|
The Probability and Nature of an Interstellar Information-Trading Community
|
Mark H. Shellans
|
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| 2015 |
| 1
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Challenges of Manned Interstellar Travel: An Overview
|
Nick Kanas, M.D.
|
| 2
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Five Wagers on What Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe Will Be Like
|
Steven L. Peck
|
| 3
|
New Horizons at Pluto: The Grand Tour Finally Completed
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 4
|
Brain Hacking: The Legal, Social, and Scientific Ramifications of the Latest (Very Real) Mind-Reading Technologies
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 5
|
Orbits to Order
|
Stanley Schmidt
|
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| 2016 |
| 1
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Energy for the Future: Solar-Derived Fuels, Artificial Leaves, and Electricity-Eating Microbes that Poop Out Gasoline
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 2
|
Dawn Comes to the Asteroid Belt: What NASA's 9-Year Mission Is Learning About One of Science Fiction's Favorite Realms
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 3
|
A Mind of Its Own: Part I: Artificial Intelligence
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 3
|
A Mind of Its Own: Part II: Superintelligence
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 4
|
Human 2.0: Being All We Can Be Part 1
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 4
|
Human 2.0: Being All We Can Be Part II
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 5
|
Here We Go Loopedy Loop: A Brief History of Time Travel (Part I)
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| 5
|
Here We Go Loopedy Loop: A Brief History of Time Travel (Part II)
|
Edward M. Lerner
|
| |
| 2017 |
| 1
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The Quest for the 2:00 Marathon
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 2
|
Alien Archaeology: Searching for the Fingerprint of Advanced Extraterrestrial Civilizations
|
Michael Carroll
|
| 3
|
Sustainability Lab 101: Cuba as a Simulation of Possible Futures
|
Stanley Schmidt
|
| 4
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Fatal Starlight
|
Paul Fisher
|
| 5
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Rendezvous with a Comet: How ESA's Rosetta Mission Is Decoding Ancient Planetary Mysteries
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
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| 2018 |
| 1
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In Defense of the Planet
|
Marianne Dyson
|
| 2
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Hell is Other Planets
|
Julie Novakova
|
| 3
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Alien Biochemistry: Embracing the Carbon Chauvinist
|
Jay Werkheiser
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Taming the Genie: How Fear of the Atom Threatens Our Future
|
C. Stuart Hardwick
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| *
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The Science Behind The Quantum Magician
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| 2019 |
| 1
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The Venus Sweet Spot: Floating Home
|
John J. Vester
|
| 2
|
Do We Still Need NASA? The Agency and Its Future in the Era of Commercial Space
|
C. Stuart Hardwick
|
| 3
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Building a Gravitational Wave Transmitter
|
Gregory Benford
and
Albert Jackson
|
| |
| 2020 |
| 1
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Space Dust: How an Asteroid Altered Life on Earth...Millions of Years Before the Dinosaurs
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
| 2
|
Veiling the Earth
|
Gregory Benford
|
| 3
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Big Smart Objects
|
Gregory Benford
and
Larry Niven
|
| |
| 2021 |
| 1
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Constructing a Habitable Planet
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Julie Novakova
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| 2
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Possible Signs of Life on Venus
|
David L. Clements
|
| 3
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Return to the Golden Age: Why Venus Might Actually Once Have Been Habitable
|
Richard A. Lovett
|
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