๐ Howdy Space Aficionado! ๐โจ
Here is my recommended Space Reading List ๐. As you’ll quickly see, they’re not all about space. I am sharing because I think they’re valuable for the space-minded, like you. Enjoy! ๐๐
Extraterrestrial
by Avi Loeb

Approaching extraterrestrial possibility through existentialist philosophy and peer-reviewed astronomy.
The First Landing
by Robert Zubrin

Brilliantly prescient novel written around 2000 about a Mars mission in 2010. Politics on earth and in space remind me of the 2020s. Zubrin has a number of non-fiction titles but only two novels. Read this one.
The Medium is the Massage
by Marshall McLuhan

Required reading for anyone trying to find the ground in the 21st century. Brilliant dive into how technology and media change human perception.
The Overview Effect
by Frank White

Frank is cataloging through astronauts what philosophers, religions, and system designers have been telling us for centuries: We are in space, we are from space. Must Read.
Pale Blue Dot
by Carl Sagan

Existentialist philosophy for an emerging space-faring humanity, but also an epic love poem for earth and humanity and the voyager spacecraft.
Sapiens
by Yuval Harari

Humanity’s core distinction is our ability to communicate abstract falsifications enabling greater performance or abstractions, aka storytelling. This is the emergence of that storytelling creature.
Space Education
by Mark Wagner, Ph. D.

Going to space requires a shift in education, so will being in space – these essays consider and explore what and how students and educators will learn.
Space is Open for Business
by Robert Jacobson

There are many industries and opportunities supporting, investing, and regulating Space acitivites, this ambitious and succinct volume presents a snapshot of the NewSpace economy.
Space Marketing
By Izzy House

Brilliantly focusing on the Space companies this marketing books provides fully details the dimensions of marketing necessary for a space company.
Take Today: The Executive as Dropout by Marshall McLuhan

Understanding that the world is a bunch of interfaces, and that only a human can make a breakdown become a breakthrough – this is a media ecology guide for modern managers.
The New Right Stuff
By Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides

We can’t discover the cosmos before we work on ourselves. With exercises and concepts in awareness and growth, this is a self development book for the Space Age.
Team Human
By Douglass Rushkoff

The media maze and constant surrounding of more screens can confuse us from what it means to be a person and to be human, we can always rediscover when we do it together.
Touching the Face of the Cosmos {Anthology}

This mix of essays and fiction from a diverse set of voices presents a cosmos that inspires awe and space travelers with a purposeful heritage. An unlikely grouping ends up being a rich exploration of a meaningful human life in space.
What We Owe the Future
by William MacAskill

A logically optimistic and thoroughly rational take that we are the ancient ancestors of a humanity that will continue to increase in generational happiness as it can navigate a few existential things.