The Case for Pandora
James Essig and Steve McCarter’s The Case For Pandora is a technical manual with instructions for building a spaceship capable of extraterrestrial travel. Designs for generation, colony, and century ships, collectively referred to as space arks, are offered as a solution to an extinction-level event (ELE) such as an asteroid or climate change.
The text is devoted to a single solution to human extinction: leaving Earth behind. It includes extensive information about building a colony ...