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The New World on Mars
- Author
- Robert Zubrin
- Narrator
- Lee Goettl
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 15 August 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Popular science, Solar system: the Sun and planets, Space science, Social forecasting, future studies, Impact of science and technology on society
- Rating
- 3.0 (1 review)
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Within a few years, humans will be able to voyage to Mars. SpaceX is at the forefront of companies already building fleets of spaceships to make interplanetary travel as affordable as Old-World passage to America – to the then New World. We will settle the red planet, transforming its raw materials into resources and tackling the challenges that await us, creating a new frontier for humankind.
Dr Robert Zubrin explains how populous Martian city-states will emerge, producing their own air, water, food, power and more. How they must be beautiful to attract settlers, and what that might look like. How the primary exports are unlikely to be material goods but intellectual products, created by a technically adept population in a frontier environment where people will be forced to innovate – including GMOs, robotics, AI and power production. Zubrin even predicts the red planet’s customs, social relations and government – of the people, by the people, for the people, with inalienable individual rights – that will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw talented Earth immigrants.
In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote ‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again’. Zubrin inspires us to embrace another magnificent future today. With the right pieces in place, his red planet will become a pressure cooker for invention, benefiting humans on Earth, Mars and beyond. The New World on Mars proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces on Earth when, together, we can create planets.
© Robert Zubrin 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
Critics Review
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Dr Zubrin has written a magnificent book which will set the gold standard for all future books about Mars. He is a pioneer and a visionary, but his conjectures are always based on solid science. His book takes us one step closer to the day when we can live and thrive on another planet.
Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation and Quantum Supremacy
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Zubrin's vibrant, colorful, and stimulating narrative of how to get to, modify, settle, and prosper on Mars makes me a believer. For the sake of our civilization and our place in the cosmos as important beings, we can (and should and must) do this!
Homer Hickam, author of Rocket Boys, adapted into the film October Sky
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Robert Zubrin has thought long and hard about traveling to Mars, so we should welcome his latest thoughts. In this highly readable book, he notes how technical advances, especially reduced launch costs, render such projects more feasible. He offers a fascinating and enticing vision of the utopian New World that he believes could and should be created on the Red Planet
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and author of On the Future
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Making humanity multiplanetary is one of the grandest adventures of all time. The Red Planet is the key. If you want to understand why, start by reading The New World On Mars
Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator and author of Escaping Gravity
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Robert Zubrin's The New World On Mars confirms the author's stature as one of the high priests of American techno-optimism...The book should be read by all those who reject the discredited ideas of Malthus and his degrowth disciples and embrace Zubrin's vision of a superabundant, pro-human future
Marian Tupy, Founder and editor of HumanProgress.org and author of Superabundance
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This book is Robert Zubrin's magnum opus not only on creating a new world on Mars, and what life and society might be like for future Martians, but for what it means for us Earthlings ... Zubrin shows us the way
Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine
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Bob Zubrin's mixture of imagination, technical expertise, zeal and civilizational commitment is unmatched. Nothing brings it out better than his first and best subject matter, the planet Mars
Oliver Morton, author of Mapping Mars
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In one volume, Zubrin--the founding president of the International Mars Society and author of The Case For Mars, has achieved what few other books on Mars have been able. He offers an astoundingly comprehensive road map for how to make dreams about colonizing Mars become reality
Forbes.com
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Not what I thought it would be a dull reading of a 1950s SiFi vision of off planet life I was hoping for Tererforming or something new.
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Details
- Author
- Robert Zubrin
- Narrator
- Lee Goettl
- Duration
- 8 hours 45 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 August 2024
- ISBN
- 9781802068160
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Popular science, Solar system: the Sun and planets, Space science, Social forecasting, future studies, Impact of science and technology on society
- Rating
- 3.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 3.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. Within a few years, humans will be able to voyage to Mars. SpaceX is at the forefront of companies already building fleets of spaceships to make interplanetary travel as affordable as Old-World passage to America – to the then New World. We will settle the red planet, transforming its raw materials into resources and tackling the challenges that await us, creating a new frontier for humankind.Dr Robert Zubrin explains how populous Martian city-states will emerge, producing their own air, water, food, power and more. How they must be beautiful to attract settlers, and what that might look like. How the primary exports are unlikely to be material goods but intellectual products, created by a technically adept population in a frontier environment where people will be forced to innovate – including GMOs, robotics, AI and power production. Zubrin even predicts the red planet’s customs, social relations and government – of the people, by the people, for the people, with inalienable individual rights – that will overcome traditional forms of oppression to draw talented Earth immigrants.In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote ‘We have it in our power to begin the world over again’. Zubrin inspires us to embrace another magnificent future today. With the right pieces in place, his red planet will become a pressure cooker for invention, benefiting humans on Earth, Mars and beyond. The New World on Mars proves that there is no point killing each other over provinces on Earth when, together, we can create planets.© Robert Zubrin 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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