Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Habitable Planets for Man

Holy crap! Just discovered that the Rand Corporation has made its landmark 1964 study Habitable Planets for Man by Stephen H. Dole available for free as PDF (scroll down to the link to the free download, of just click here). This is it, folks, the world-building bible; I paid a fortune years ago for a used hard copy ... Enjoy!

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Posted by Rob on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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At July 17, 2007 10:07 PM , Blogger Dwight Williams said...

This could be entertaining. I'll pass it along to OSFS!

 
At July 18, 2007 12:19 AM , Blogger Peggy said...

Very cool! That looks like a very useful report. I'll pass on the link too.

 
At July 18, 2007 12:40 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I remember that book, from my youthful days at the University of Louisville. The Physical Sciences library had a copy, and I would check it out and look over the parameters, imagining a voyage to discover strange new worlds, new life and new civilizations (or even a decadent old one), boldly to go where no one had gone before! Er.

Much thanks to the folks at RAND and to Robert for pointing it out.

Joseph T Major

 
At July 16, 2009 4:55 PM , Blogger Scott Sigler said...

Thanks! Downloading now.

 

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