SolSeed book
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In book form, the ideas that make up SolSeed will be much more "solid" than they are on this wiki--that is, while a wiki is designed to be easy to change, a book can only be revised relatively rarely. Thus, it's important to plan carefully to ensure that the book represents the best current consensus we can establish about what SolSeed is, where it came from, and what it intends to become.
Some ideas for this iteration of the book could be drawn from Ben's initial work on a previous iteration at AboutUs.org.
Title Ideas
- Becoming SolSeed: A Survival Guide for the Human Race
- Makes the title stand out, but maybe too sensationalist
- SolSeed: Building a Community of Starfarers
- SolSeed: Growing New Living Worlds
- Could these two be combined without being awkward?
Tentative Table of Contents
Part 1: Building a Starfaring Civilization
- Chapter 1: Being a Starfarer
- Subheadings TBA
- Chapter 2: Building a Society of Starfarers
- Growing the movement
- Forming SolSeed communities
- In it for the long haul (link is to discussion at Seed 2009)
- Chapter 3: Reconnecting with Mother Earth
- What is Gaia?
- Learning to live within limits
- A joint venture with nature
Part 2: Spreading the Seed
- Chapter 4: Mars as a first step
- Getting there
- Terraforming/ecopoeisis
- The problem of perseverance
- Chapter 5: Living in space
- Orbiting mini-worlds
- Generations between the stars
- The high cost of high speed
- Chapter 6: Taking root amongst the stars
- On our own, far from home
- Bringing dead worlds to life
- Coexisting with alien biospheres
Conclusion: Interstellar civilization?
