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Astronautics: In 1929, the “Generation ship” idea was proposed by John D Bernal in his book “The World, the Flesh, and the Devil”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

There is a rapid turnover of UFO material on the Internet. Many links to material on UFO websites quickly become out of date. Therefore, instead of giving many links to specific webpages I have instead included below a search box which can be used to search various leading UFO websites at the same time. You can then click on tabs at the top of the search results to list only results from forums, only results from websites I have labelled as "skeptical" etc. I have included tabs for a couple of specific websites that I find particularly useful, including the valuable archives of the UFO UpDates email discussion List. The relevant websites are all listed in the discussion of the "UFO Searchillion" search engine in Section 2.4 of the "Free UFO Researcher Starter Pack" and continues to evolve...

 

The relevant search box is one of the two main tools on this website which are intended to help reduce the amount of reinvention of the wheel within UFOlogy. The other main tool is the collection of tables of references to discussion of UFO incidents, personalities and other matters in various books. Those tables can be sorted by author, length and date. I hope these tools are useful.

 

 

 

Book References

The table below includes references to relevant discussions in UFO/SETI books noted by Isaac Koi during a review of approximately 963 UFO/SETI books during the period 2003-2006 (with a few later additions). The table can be sorted by author, date and length of discussion by clicking on the relevant word in the top line of the table.

Many of the tables of references on this website are considerably longer than the references to books found on most other UFO websites. Indeed, some are probably the longest that have been collated in relation to some events and personalities. Together with the "UFO Searchillion" search box, I hope that these tables are found to be a useful contribution to UFOlogy.

For discussion of Bernal’s book and/or “generation ships” see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1985

Angelo, Joseph A in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia: Man’s Search for Life in Outer Space” (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 14 (in the entry entitled “bernal sphere”), 190 (in the entry entitled “space station) of the revised 1991 Fact on File hardback edition.

2

1979

Asimov, Isaac in his “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (1979) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 234-241 (in Chapter 12) of the Crown hardback edition, at pages 265-273 of the Pan paperback edition.

8

2003

Benjamin, Marina in her “Rocket Dreams” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 143-144, 155, 162 (in Chapter 4) of the Chatto & Windus hardback edition.

4

1999

Berry, Adrian in his “The Giant Leap” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 24-25 (in Chapter 2) of the revised Headline softcover edition.

2

1974

Bracewell, Ronald in his “The Galactic Club” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133 (in the Reader's Guide) of the Heinemann softcover edition.

1

1987

Clarke, Arthur C in “Arthur C Clarke’s Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious” (1987) (by Fairley, John & Welfare, Simon) at page 180 (in Chapter 9) of the Guild Publishing hardback edition.

1

1993

Clarke, Arthur in his “By Space Possessed” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 39 (in Chapter 3) of the Victor Gollancz hardback edition.

1

1982

Crawford, Ian in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 61 (in Chapter 8) of the Cambridge softcover second edition. The relevant chapter is a revised and abridged version of an article published under the title “Interstellar Travel: A Review for Astronomers” in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 31 (1990) at pages 377-400. The text of that article is available free online at: http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~iac/isflight/isflight.html

1

2000

Darling, David in his “The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 42-43 (in the entry entitled “Bernal Sphere”), 115 (in the entry entitled “Dyson sphere”) of the Three Rivers softcover edition.

3

2003

Darling, David in his online encyclopedia, “The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy and Spaceflight” (2003) in the entry entitled “Generation Ship”. The relevant entry is available online at: “http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/G/generationship.html

1

1999

Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 347 (in Chapter 14) of the Wiley softcover edition.

1

1996

Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 247 (in Chapter 5) of the Cambridge hardback edition.

1

2001

Harrison, Albert A in his “Spacefaring : The Human Dimension” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 246-250 (in Chapter 14) of the California softcover edition.

5

1989

Mallove, Eugene F and Matloff, Gregory L in their “The Starflight Handbook” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 11, 13 (in Chapter 1), 20-21 (in Chapter 2) of the Wiley hardback edition.

4

1988

Nicolson, Iain in his “The Road to the Stars” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 86 (in Chapter 5), 161-166 (in Chapter 9) of the Book Club Associates hardback edition.

7

1981

Powers, Robert M in his “The Coattails of God: The Trip to the Stars” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-80 (in Chapter 5), 152, 155-156 (in Chapter 9) of the Warner paperback edition.

6

1975

Ridpath, Ian in his “Worlds Beyond” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in Chapter 8) of the Wildwood House softcover edition, at pages 148 of the revised 1977 Penguin softcover edition entitled “Signs of Life”.

1

2002

Ross, Hugh in “Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men” (2002) (edited by Ross, Hugh and Samples, Kenneth and Clark, Mark) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-63 (in Chapter 5) of the Navpress softcover edition.

3

1982

Singer, Cliff in “Extraterrestrials: Where are they?” (1982) (edited by Michael Hart and Ben Zuckerman) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 74-75 (in Chapter 9) of the Cambridge softcover second edition.

2

1997

Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne in their “True Life Encounters – Alien Contact” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 35 (in Chapter 2) of the Millenium paperback edition.

1

2002

Webb, Stephen in his “Where is Everybody?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 63 (in Chapter 4), 252 (in the Notes and Further Reading) of the Copernicus hardback edition.

2

 

Other Material

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