266 pgs, 1996, John Wiley & Sons
  ISBN 978-0471135616

The editors have gathered proposals for interstellar travel and colonization from writers, researchers, and engineers, as published in Analog magazine, to create this provocative, fun-filled book. However, articles cover marketing and legal issues as well as scientific matters, with no shortage of diagrams, equations and photographs. This book makes a case for why space exploration still needs government, industrial, and popular support to turn "impossible" ideas into everyday realities.

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

          Part One: Breaking the Bonds of the Earth

1. Comes the Revolution
2. The Hypersonic Skyhook
   
   Part Two: Stepping Into the Solar System
   
3. Mars Direct: A Proposal for the Rapid Exploration and Colonization of the Red Planet
4. Inward Ho!
5. Colonizing the Outer Solar System
6. Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud
7. Alien Life Between Here and the Stars
   
   Part Three: Creating New Worlds
   
8. Terraforming Mars
9. A Planet Dweller's Dreams
10. Astrophysical Engineering and the Fate of the Earth
    
    Part Four: Advanced Drives and Interstellar Travel
    
11. To the Stars!
12. The Magnetic Sail
13. The Tachyon Drive: Infinite Exhaust
14. The Negative Matter Space Drive
15. The Economics of Interstellar Commerce