Index of Topics

acceleration 67, 29, 50
actors 109
aliens 7, 16, 17, 21, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 42, 49, 55, 56, 62, 71, 73
alternate universes 6, 10, 15, 26, 42, 55, 60, 64, 70, 107
annuals 1, 4, 6, 23, 25, 36, 52, 90, B
anticthon 70
aquatic life 29, 35, 73, 93
arcology 61, 99
artificial intelligence 7, 12, 22, 34, 43, 50, 54, 55, 56, 59, 61, 63, 66
asteroids 31, 44, 75, 83, 89, 92, 95
– (2101) Adonis 89
– (21811) Burroughs 75
– (1683) Castafiore 89
– (1) Ceres 44
– (3753) Cruithne 92, 95
– (1652) Herge 89
– (21) Lutetia 95
– near-Earth 89
– trojan 92, 98
astronomerology 41, 100
astronomers A, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 16, 23, 30, 31, 33, 41, 45, 49, 75, 77, 89, 92, 100
Astronomer Royal 4, 77
Atlantis 26, 29, 32, 63, 73
Atomic Energy 30, 47, 60, 73
Australia 23, 48, 68, 72, 79, 86, 97
automation 12, 54

beanstalks ... see space elevators
Belgium 89
Bell labs 25, 65
big dumb objects 61
binary stars 9, 16, 38, 51, 62, 65, 69
biosignatures 27
bootstrap paradox 40
Britain 8, 28
British Interplanetary Society (BIS) 6, 31, 50, 68, 72, 78, 80, 89, 95
British spaceflight 4, 5, 6, 25, 36, 79, 86
buildings 12, 61
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 60

Canopus 51
capitalism 19, 26, 28, 34
careers 2, 3, 41
catastrophism 9, 10, 30, 33, 37, 38, 49
centrifugal force 34, 39, 61, 67
cetaceans 35, 72
Chariots of the Gods 33
children's SF 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 23, 25, 34, 47, 52, 59
Clarke's Third Law 20, 21, 26, 38, 42, 50, 67, 74, 76, 91, 99
climate change 10, 96
cloning 107
clouds 56
comics 4, 6, 15, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 33, 36, 46, 47, 48, 59, 60, 61, 65, 67, 69, 71, 73, 89 (see also Dan Dare)
cosmology 32, 42
counter-earth 70
Coventry 28, 88

dark forest, the 62
deserts 5, 51, 97
dinosaurs 5, 69, 70, 77
disability 105
Disney theme parks 40, 47, 48, 77
dolphins 35, 60, 73
Drake equation 33, 38
droughts 97
dust (astronomy) 56
dystopia 13, 14, 43, 48, 57
Dyson spheres 50, 60, 61, 63, 69, 104

eccentrics 5, 8
environmental SF 10, 29, 96, 97
Epsilon Eridani 39, 69
Eridani, 40 51
eugenics 13, 32, 39, 58, 59, 64, 105
evolution 29, 55, 58, 59, 63, 66, 69, 71, 77, 83
exoplanets (astronomy) 3, 16, 19, 27, 28, 30, 50, 61

female scientists 7, 8, 9, 11, 16, 21, 48, 70, 105
Fermi's Paradox 33, 35, 62, 80
fifth planet (hypothesised) 44, 79, 83, 95
folklore 1, 20, 65
France 100
fullerine 68
fungi 102, 111

game theory 62
games 101, 105
gas clouds 56, 65, 72
gender conflict 101
general relativity 67
generation ships 22, 34, 39, 50, 71
geology 80, 95
geosynchronous orbit 45, 68
Golden Disks 21, 72
gravity 42, 67
gyroscopes 94

habitability 10, 16, 17, 22, 24, 29, 30, 36, 39, 49, 51, 77
history 88
history of science 14, 15, 56, 70
hyperosmia 37
humanity 11, 22, 29, 32, 35, 37, 39, 55, 57, 58, 59, 63, 105
hydrogen
– 21cm line 21, 65
– atomic 16, 42, 56, 95
– metallic 46, 95
– molecular 24

identity 107
immortality 11
insects 5, 20, 35, 55, 66
internet 101
interstellar objects 31

jaunting 18, 59... see also teleportation
Jupiter (and its moons) 1, 5, 21, 34, 36, 44, 50, 65, 67, 72, 73, 76, 83, 95, 98

Kardashev scale 61
Kessler Syndrome 45, 79, 81
knowledge preservation 14, 21, 22

Ladybird books 47
language 21
lifesigns 27
longevity 11

Magnetism 67
Manhattan Project, The 13, 26, 47, 60, 64
Mars 4, 5, 17, 21, 24, 34, 43, 50, 51, 55, 60, 68, 75, 76, 80, 83
materials 26, 46, 73
medicine 11, 14, 58, 71, 76, 74
megastructures 26, 31, 39, 56, 60, 61, 63, 68
METI 62, 65
military 7, 25, 34, 60, 73, 86
miniaturisation 20, 103
mining 19, 34, 44, 46, 47, 54, 95
minor planets ... see asteroids
mirrors (space) 104
moholes 80
Moon, The 1, 5, 30, 34, 35, 48, 60, 61, 64, 65, 76, 90, 92
moons 4, 16, 25, 27, 34, 36, 50, 61, 68, 70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 82, 83, 91, 92, 94, 95
mycelial networks 102

National Astronomy Meeting 2022 41
navigation 72
Nazi Germany 20, 59, 60, 64, 99
nebulae 56
neutronium 46, 61, 87
neutron stars 87

Observatories:
– Arecibo 21, 65, B
– Fort Skala 78
– Harvard 75, 92
– Herstmonceaux 4, 23
– Hubble 23, 94
– Jodrell Bank B, 6, 7, 65, 79
– Lunar 65, 89, 90
– Mill Hill 9
– Mount Wilson 77, 92
– Mullard Radio Astronomy 65
– Palomar B, 4, 92
– Royal Greenwich Observatory 4
– Toulouse 92
– Uccle, Belgium 89
– Very Large Array (VLA) 65
– Yerkes 89
oceans 5, 17, 29, 35, 36, 42, 51, 61, 63, 73, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98
O'Neill Cylinder 31, 39, 61, 67, 94
Ou'Mua'Mua 31
overpopulation 5, 11, 22, 29, 57
Outer Space Treaty 5, 19, 34, 76, 81

panspermia 55, 56, 63, 76
paradox 15, 33, 35, 40
Pelican science books 8
physics 16, 20, 21, 26, 42, 43, 110
Pioneer (space probe) 1, 6, 21, 31, 36, 47, 72
planets 16, 17, 19, 27, 29, 30, 49, 50, 51, 70, 75, 82
Planetary Protection 17, 76, 80
Plants 10, 24, 51, 71
postal services 91
post-apocalyptic 13, 14, 29, 30, 37, 38, 43, 91, 96
power supply 104
private spaceflight 5, 19, 34, 45, 39, 45
Project Orion 60
psychohistory 84

quantum physics 18, 42, 60, 99

radiation 53
radio astronomy B, 6, 7, 21, 65, 78
radio SF 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 35, 37, 40, 43, 44
railways 90, 106
reality TV 57
relativity 22, 42
religion 14, 22, 43, 49, 55, 59, 102
remote sensing 27
restricted growth 105
robots 22, 26, 32, 34, 35, 47, 51, 54, 66, 107
rockets 8, 25, 30, 34, 43, 45, 52, 60, 64, 67, 69, 89, 91
Royal Society of Edinburgh 79

Sargasso sea 98
satellites 39, 45, 53
Saturn 27, 35, 36, 39, 71, 103
science communication 1, 2, 23, 41, 43, 47, 74
science fiction (self-reflectivity) 109
science of... 2, 68, 74
scientific ethics 11, 14, 20, 22, 26, 29, 54, 60, 64, 99
scientists 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 20, 37, 41, 42, 43, 52, 60, 74, 75, 79, 99, 110
scientism 13, 43
Scotland 79
senses 37
SETI 7, 21, 27, 31, 33, 35, 62, 65
silicon-based life 83
skyhook 68
social networks 101
sociology 84
software A, 3
Solar System 5, 36, 44, 30, 31, 34, 36, 39, 44, 55, 76
Solar flare ... see space weather
Soviet Russia 64
space elevators 68
space junk 34, 45
space stations 13, 16, 19, 22, 19, 27, 32, 34, 39, 42, 45, 48, 53, 61, 64, 67, 72, 86, 81, 93, 94
space travel 18, 22, 27, 33, 36, 43, 50, 53, 68, 76
space utilisation 19, 24, 34, 39. 44, 45, 61, 68, 79, 90, 95
space weather 34, 38, 50, 53, 68, 71, 76, 96, 104
steampunk 15, 40, 73
stellar evolution 9, 16, 32, 38, 50
submarines 47, 71, 73, 93
Sun, The 53, 60, 104
supernovae 9, 22, 38, 49, 65, 69
symbiosis 111

technicians 108
technocracy 10, 13, 26
technology 8, 12, 14, 22, 26, 27, 34, 39, 43, 47, 61, 81, 90, 95
teleporting 18, 26, 59, 106
television 57
terraforming 17, 29, 78, 80
thought experiments 42
time travel 10, 15, 28, 40, 58, 88
Titan (Saturn's Moon) 103
transatlantic tunnels 106
transportation 106

uncertainty (quantum) 18, 20, 88, 99
unobtanium 46, 47, 61, 68, 73, 80, 95

V weapons (V1, V2) 64, 94
Venus 5, 69, 71, 76, 77, 78
Very Large Array 65
Voyager 21, 36, 72

water 20, 56, 80, 95
– management 10, 15, 34, 48, 68, 85, 86, 96, 97
– on other worlds 5, 24, 36, 51, 75, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 87
... see also aquatic life, submarines
weapons, orbital 81
weather 48, 53
– space ... see space weather
white dwarfs 9, 16, 38, 46, 49, 51, 61
Woomera 6, 79, 86, 91
World War:
– First 5, 25, 79
– Second 25, 28, 47, 60, 64, 70, 81, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 99
– Third 80, 81, 84

Zirconium 83