Becoming Earthseed: A Survival Guide for the Human Race
partial, unpublished manuscript
Why, you may ask, am I working on the manuscript for a book on a Wiki site?
Well, to borrow a line from the pilot of Joss Whedon's excellent but short-lived Firefly TV series: "You've just got to have faith in people." Anyone who wanders into this little corner of the Internet is most likely someone I would gladly count as a friend. Besides, even if you steal my work, I won't particularly mind; the purpose here is to spread a message, not to make money.
That being said, I would like to state a request: if you want to make an edit other than to fix some grammar, I ask that you please email me or talk to me on AIM (SN: WeirdBen) and tell me briefly why you made the change.
Table of Contents
Introduction - All our eggs are in one fraying basket
Part I: Terraforming Earth
- Chapter 1: What is Gaia? - And why do we need her?
- Chapter 2: The first step is the hardest - Putting the brakes on progress
- Chapter 3: Flight in a cage - Learning to live within limits
- Chapter 4: Quarantine - A temporary separation from nature
- Chapter 5: In it for the long haul - Building Thousand-Year Institutions
Part II: Spreading the seeds
- Chapter 6: Getting into space - Right ways and wrong ways
- Chapter 7: Space colonies - A stopgap measure
- Chapter 8: Planting a seed - The first colonies on other worlds
- Chapter 9: Cutting the supply lines - Living off the land on a dead world
Part III: Making new Earths
- Chapter 10: Mars - The once and future biosphere
- Chapter 11: Europa - The ocean within
- Chapter 12: Venus - Back from the abyss
- Chapter 13: Titan - A dilemma of adaptation
- Chapter 14: Becoming Solseed - The Interstellar Era
