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A Step Farther Out

Table of Contents

PREFACE: THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE

by Larry Niven

FOREWORD

by A E. van Vogt

PART ONE: SURVIVAL WITH STYLE

Commentary

Survival with Style

A Blueprint for Survival

How Long to Doomsday?

That Buck Rogers Stuff

PART TWO: STEPPING FARTHER OUT

Commentary

Here Come the Brains

The Big Rain

Flying Saucers

Building the Mote in God's Eye

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

PART THREE: A STEP FARTHER IN: BLACK HOLES

Commentary

Gravity Waves, Black Holes, and Cosmic Censors

Fuzzy Black Holes Have No Hair

Crashing Neutron Stars, Mini Black Holes, and Spacedrives

"In the Beginning . . ."

Afterword to Part Three

PART FOUR: SPACE TRAVEL

Commentary

Halfway to Anywhere

Those Pesky Belters and Their Torchships

Ships for Manned Spaceflight

Life Among the Asteroids

What's It Like Out There?

PART FIVE: A GENERATION OF WONDER

Commentary

A Potpourri

Highways to Space

"Come Fly with Me"

The Tools of the Trade (And Other Scientific Matters)

PART SIX: THE ENERGY CRISIS

Commentary

Fusion Without Ex-Lax

Can Trash Save Us?

The Moral Equivalent of War

CONCLUSION

Some Futures