The New Scientist Book Club has been studying Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s A City on Mars, a e-book that delves into whether the dream of settling new worlds may flip right into a nightmare for each the pioneers and these left behind. They deal with each space-related query you’ve ever had, and loads you haven’t but imagined. This week, our tradition editor Alison Flood caught up with the award-winning novelists to know why, after years of analysis, they’ve grown sceptical of the supposed advantages of settling space, why we should be excited about legislation in space sooner moderately than later, and why they began calling themselves the “space bastards”.
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