{"id":1879,"date":"2014-10-28T00:05:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2014-10-27T15:16:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T20:16:54","slug":"space-elevator-20xx-additional-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Space Elevator 20XX – “Additional Reading”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In yesterday’s post, I talked about the new crowd-funding campaign to create Space Elevator – 20XX<\/strong><\/a>, a “dialogue driven web game<\/em>“.\u00a0 Reading about this new project and then writing the blog post caused me to think about life on a space elevator and the books I had read which had this as theme.\u00a0 The ones I can recall are:<\/p>\n

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\nHorizons<\/strong><\/a> by Mary Rosenblum.\u00a0 I blogged about this<\/a> back in March of 2007 (Has it really been 7&1\/2 years since then?\u00a0 Geez…).\u00a0 Check out my blog post for a brief review of the book, but suffice it say that I remember really enjoying it.\u00a0 The concluding line in my review was “Overall, however, I quite enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to see how a future, Space-Elevator based civilization might develop.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

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\nRed Mars<\/strong><\/a> by Kim Stanley Robinson.\u00a0 It’s been a long time since I’ve read this – too long in fact, but as I recall, there was some description of life aboard the Mars Space Elevator, that is until it was sabotaged and the space station (Apex Anchor) went flying off into space.\u00a0 I’ve never posted a book review but have made my feelings known in this blog post<\/a>, detailing a new TV series which is supposed to be based on this book.<\/p>\n

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Running The Line<\/strong><\/a>, a collection of ‘Selected stories and images from the 2005 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition<\/em>‘ edited by Dr. Brad Edwards and David Raitt.\u00a0 I had blogged about this book in a very brief post<\/a> in April of 2007 and, in that post, had leaned on a more detailed review of this book by “Dr. Coburn”.\u00a0 Sadly, the link to that review no longer works.\u00a0 It’s been many years since I’ve read this collection, but as I recall, many\/most of the shorts dealt with a specific aspect of living on a space elevator.<\/p>\n

There might be other books with these theme, but I can’t think of them at the moment.\u00a0 So, if you want a primer on how you might want to navigate through this ‘dialogue driven web game’, these books might provide you with some clues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In yesterday’s post, I talked about the new crowd-funding campaign to create Space Elevator – 20XX, a “dialogue driven web game“.\u00a0 Reading about this new project and then writing the blog post caused me to think about life on a space elevator and the books I had read which had this as theme.\u00a0 The ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}