A CITY ON MARS
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Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren’t so sure it’s a good idea.

…a book about how its actually a really really terrible idea. The authors (notably, the same authors of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) started out with the intention of writing about how cool and necessary space colonization is… but over the course of their research, came to realize that it’s really not.