STAR SETTLERS: The Billionaires, Geniuses, and Crazed Visionaries Out to Conquer the Universe

Offers a window into a peculiar subculture packed with members of the scientific, intellectual, and economic elite. This timely work captures the extra scientific zeal for space travel and settlement, places it in its historical context, and tackles the surreal conceptions underlying the enterprise and prognosis for its future. 16 pages of photos, many in color.