Sylvia Engdahl's Space Pages
Space and Human Survival Why our species must colonize space to survive (formerly here at space.htm).
Space Quotes to Ponder What famous people, and some not famous, have said about why humankind must expand into space. (Also reachable at www.spacequote.com)
Confronting the Universe in the Twenty-First Century The Afterword to the 2012 edition of my book The Planet-Girded Suns, republished in The Space Review.
If you care about the future of Earth, you should care about space! Because Earth's resources can't last forever -- our descendants will need power and materials from space. Because they'll need room to raise families when Earth becomes too crowded. And because the only long-term way to preserve Earth's beauty, and its ecology, is for some humans to eventually move on.
What About Mars? My comments on Mars (formerly on my Space and Human Survival page).	Plus 50 Years and Counting 50 years after the first space flights, are we counting again or still holding?
Tragedy in Space Written February 1, 1986 at the time of the Challenger disaster, preface updated on February 1, 2003.	Achieving Human Commitment to Space Colonization: Is Fear the Answer? What may be needed to build sufficient public support for space colonies before it's too late.
Hymn for Spacefarers For use by churches, written in 1971.	The Evolutionary Significance of Space Colonization My 1980 proposal for a master's thesis in Anthropology.
The Mythic Role of Space Fiction An essay about how today's emerging mythology reflects our era's perception of the universe.	The New Mythology of the Space Age My "lectures" for a graduate-level online course I taught in 1995. (16 pages, contents on first.)
FAQ about my SF novel The Far Side of Evil and the updating of the Critical Stage idea in the 2003 edition.	Updated 2006 edition of Journey Between Worlds, My novel for teens about the colonization of Mars.
My 90-minute radio interviews on The Space Show (Archived in Windows Media Player format) #1: Aired on October 26, 2003 --- #2: Aired on May 9, 2004
The Planet-Girded Suns Updated edition of my book on views of extrasolar planets, now available in paperback and as an ebook.	Early Space Poetry Passages about space from poetry of the 17th through 19th centuries. (More in new edition of The Planet-Girded Suns.)
Links to some of the best sites advocating space colonization. My Home Page - links to pages about my science fiction novels and my life.