The i4is team have produced various books which are available to buy.
Beyond the Horizon, 2017
This is a companion volume to Beyond the Boundary which our teams are currently working on. Interested in writing a chapter for the book? Then get in touch with us at info@i4is.org.
Beyond the Boundary, 2015
Beyond the Boundary is a ground-breaking book looking at the possibilities of interstellar flight, including the technology that will drive our starships, the planets and stars that will be our destinations, the sociological basis and impact of becoming a space-fairing civilisation and how our interstellar future is depicted in art and culture. Featuring 21 chapters covering topics as diverse as 'starship cities', Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), exoplanets, launch vehicles, interstellar precursor missions, wormholes, warp drive, starship communications, artificial intelligence.
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Chapters
The book contains the following chapters, written by over twenty different authors:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword, Jon Lomberg
- Main Introduction, Kelvin F. Long
- SECTION I: THE CHALLENGE OF INTERSTELLAR FLIGHT
- Introduction, Kelvin F. Long
- Scientific and Societal Benefits of Interstellar Exploration, Ian Crawford
- The Conceptual Basis for Interstellar Flight, Giovanni Vulpetti
- When Will Voyager 1 Leave the Solar System?, Stephen Ashworth
- SECTION II: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE STARS
- Introduction, Kelvin F. Long
- Building A Starship from the Lessons of History, Jonathan Brooks
- Starship Cities, Rachel Armstrong
- Building Heavy Lift Rockets: How United Launch Alliance Do it, Bill Cress
- Future Launch Vehicles, Richard Osborne
- The Road Before the Stars: Interstellar Precursor Missions, Kelvin F. Long
- SECTION III: INTERSTELLAR TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS
- Introduction, Kelvin F. Long
- Advanced Electric Propulsion for Interstellar Precursor Missions, Angelo Genovese
- Power for the Stars: Boot-strapping Our Way to Alpha Centauri, Adam Crowl
- Warp Drives and Faster-Than-Light Travel, Tiffany Frierson
- Interstellar Travel and Traversable Wormholes, Remo Garattini
- Interstellar Communications: RF and Optical Establishment, Divya Shankar
- Starship Communication Via Quantum Entanglement, David E. Fields
- An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence As Applied to Space Exploration, Jeremy Clark
- SECTION IV: INTERSTELLAR DESTINATIONS, COLONISATION AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE
- Introduction, Kelvin F. Long
- Destinations: The Planets Next Door, Keith Cooper
- What Do We Do Once We Get There?, Kenneth Roy, David E. Fields, Robert G. Kennedy
- The Greatest Challenge: Manned Interstellar Travel, Andreas Hein
- The Drake Equation, Fermi's Paradox and Active SETI, Martin Ciupa
- SECTION V: COMMUNICATION OF THE VISION
- Introduction, Kelvin F. Long
- Travelling to the Stars on a Paintbrush, David A. Hardy
- Musica Universalis: The Interstellar Relationship Between Space, Music and Popular Culture, Alex Storer
- About the Initiative for Interstellar Studies
- Meet the Authors
- Glossary
- Index