A Step Farther Out

by Jerry Pournelle

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0491029411
• ISBN13: 9780491029414
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: W
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

visionary

Pournelle is a realist with insight. We need more - a pity that the "marching morons" are winning. If they weren't Pournelle could win for us all.

A remarkable look at our present and our future

Among non-fiction books, one of the best is Jerry Pournelle's A Step Farther Out. It contains essays he wrote throughout the seventies. One of the main goals of the book is to show that we can escape the Four Dooms--starvation, pollution, overpopulation, and depletion of natural resources. How? By developing the resources of the entire solar system; not just Earth. It isn't just a fluffy, "let's go to space" dream, either. Dr. Pournelle goes through the numbers, demonstrating that by developing the natural resources of the entire solar system we can survive, happily and with our high-energy society, for thousands of years. We can't survive if we stay on Earth--we'll run out of natural resources and starve--but we will survive if we use our solar system. Pournelle makes a compelling and entertaining argument in a book so well written you just can't put it down. He also reviews many fascinating scientific and technological breakthroughs and developments. I can't possibly do this book credit here. You'll just have to read it.