Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
By Mike Combs, Copyright © 1994 I used to write for the Fanzine of a Star Trek club, and sometimes used this forum for the discussion of High Frontier-type concepts. The following article began as a paper written for a college seminar hosted by Gerard O’Neill,...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1996 “So you’re going to Nightworld?” Jeff Martin cackled. “Oh man, this might be the point where Gary Decker finally loses his virginity!” “Bite me,” I said. “What? Why, how rude!”...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1995 “We’re coming up on Darkcrater Base now,” the pilot of the moonhopper reported. Eileen Peterson, Ph.D., leaned forward a bit so she could see better out of the window in the front of the lunar shuttle. Her first view...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
THE FUTURIST, February 1976 Space Colonies: The High Fronteir book cover An earth-like space colony could be orbiting our world by 1990, says a Princeton University physicist. The colony’s 10,000 inhabitants would enjoy green plants, animals, plains, valleys,...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright 1995 To my precious wife Sandra. Thanks for the encouragement. Table of Contents Prologue – 1981: A hopeful view of the future Chapter 1 – Evacuation Chapter 2 – A general disatisfaction with the current state of affairs...