{"id":2642,"date":"2025-05-20T19:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:11:59","slug":"may-2025-isec-newsletter-space-elevators-in-literature-dr-swans-prestigious-award-and-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"May 2025 ISEC Newsletter: Space Elevators in literature, Dr. Swan\u2019s Prestigious Award and much more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/media\/20150225Announcement.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"136\" \/>The latest issue of the ISEC Newsletter (May 2025) has just been published\u2014and as always, it&#8217;s packed with good stuff. Here are a few highlights that stood out to me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0F2C7NCVS?tag=bk00010a-20&amp;th=1&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>First Ascent<\/em><\/a>, the first book in <a href=\"https:\/\/douglasphillipsbooks.com\/books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Douglas Phillips&#8217;<\/a> &#8220;<em>The Ascending Carbon Serie<\/em>s&#8221; is now available on Amazon. I\u2019m always on the lookout for new authors, and finding one who&#8217;s writing about a space elevator? That\u2019s a win-win in my book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Further to the theme of space elevators in literature, in this month&#8217;s <em data-start=\"110\" data-end=\"126\">History Corner<\/em>, David Raitt explores how space elevators have appeared in science fiction by diving into the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). He highlights sixteen titles tagged with &#8220;space elevator&#8221; \u2014 from Clarke\u2019s <em data-start=\"342\" data-end=\"369\">The Fountains of Paradise<\/em> to Tchaikovsky\u2019s <em data-start=\"387\" data-end=\"400\">Firewalkers<\/em> \u2014 and shares how the ISFDB and Wikipedia offer rich resources for discovering how this concept has inspired storytellers for decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The newsletter also notes that Dr. Peter Swan was awarded the International Astronautical Federation&#8217;s Distinguished Service Award to &#8220;honor his lifetime commitment to Engineering and Technology, HIS VISION AND LEADERSHIP, as the founder of the IAC D4 IAA Far Future\/Space Elevator Symposia&#8221;. Congratulations Pete &#8211; well deserved!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more to explore in this issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1195\" data-end=\"1321\">\ud83d\udc49 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isec.org\/space-elevator-newsletter-2025-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1244\" data-end=\"1280\">Read the latest newsletter here<\/a><br data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1283\" \/>\ud83d\udc49 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isec.org\/newsletter-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1286\" data-end=\"1319\">Browse the full archive here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to get future issues delivered straight to your inbox? Visit the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isec.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1393\" data-end=\"1429\">ISEC website<\/a>, scroll to the bottom, and sign up using the newsletter form.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the ISEC Newsletter (May 2025) has just been published\u2014and as always, it&#8217;s packed with good stuff. Here are a few highlights that stood out to me: First Ascent, the first book in Douglas Phillips&#8217; &#8220;The Ascending Carbon Series&#8221; is now available on Amazon. I\u2019m always on the lookout for new authors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","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\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}