{"id":2476,"date":"2013-05-24T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2013-05-24T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T17:03:15","slug":"starship-century-anthology-book-and-symposium-on-interstellar-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2476","title":{"rendered":"Starship Century &#8211; anthology book and symposium on interstellar flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipcentury.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Starship Century &#8211;\u00a0 Toward the Grandest Horizon\u00a0<\/a> is an anthology project of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipcentury.com\/starship-authors\/science-fiction-authors\/gregory-benford-2\/\" target=\"_d\">Gregory Benford <\/a>, professor of Physics at UV Irvine and a noted science fiction writer, and his brother <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesbenford.com\/\" target=\"_d\">James Benford<\/a>, president of Microwave Systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this ground-breaking anthology James Benford and Gregory Benford combine their talents and celebrated intellects to bring together top scientific leaders and top science fiction writers\u2014all focused on getting us (humans) to the next chapter in space travel, interstellar flight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This week the <a href=\"http:\/\/imagination.ucsd.edu\/starship\/\" target=\"_d\">Starship Century Symposium 2013<\/a> was held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/imagination.ucsd.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_d\">Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination<\/a> at the UC San Diego. Speakers included scientists and engineers Freeman Dyson, Paul Davies, Peter Schwartz, John Cramer and Robert Zubrin and science fiction authors Neal Stephenson, Allen Steele, Joe Haldeman, Gregory Benford, Geoffrey Landis and David Brin.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two reports on the talks and discussions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2013\/0522-lomberg-starship-century-conference.html\" target=\"_d\">Report from the Starship Century Conference: Tuesday | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2013\/0521-lomberg-starship-century-conference.html\" target=\"_d\">Report from the Starship Century Conference: Monday | The Planetary Society<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipcentury.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"StarshipCentury-bkcover-lg_500x313\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/StarshipCentury-bkcover-lg_500x313.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship Century &#8211;\u00a0 Toward the Grandest Horizon\u00a0 is an anthology project of Gregory Benford , professor of Physics at UV Irvine and a noted science fiction writer, and his brother James Benford, president of Microwave Systems. In this ground-breaking anthology James Benford and Gregory Benford combine their talents and celebrated intellects to bring together top &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2476\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starship Century &#8211; anthology book and symposium on interstellar flight<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,9,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-science-and-technology","category-space-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-DW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1887,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1887","url_meta":{"origin":2476,"position":0},"title":"Starship Century Symposium 2013 &#8211; May 21 &#8211; 22, UC San Diego","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's an announcement for the Starship Century Symposium 2013: Starship Century Is this the century we begin to build starships? 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