Why should we go to space? To learn more about the universe and our place in it? To extract resources and conduct commerce? To demonstrate national primacy and technological prowess? To live and thrive in radically different kinds of human communities?Ā Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities takes on the challenge of imagining new stories at the intersection of public and privateānarratives that use the economic and social history of exploration, as well as current technical and scientific research, to inform scenarios for the future of the “new space” era.
Karl Schroeder
Overview: Stories in the Stratosphere
What kinds of gripping confrontations and adventures might unfold in near space, above the clouds?
Project Hieroglyph Book Launch: Phoenix, AZ
Launch event for Project Hieroglyph’s first anthology, Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (HarperCollins, 2014) at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, AZ on October 22, 2014.