{"id":265,"date":"2017-07-06T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2017-07-06T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T14:25:33","slug":"out-now-destination-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/out-now-destination-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Out now &#8211; Destination Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/destination-mars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/destination-mars-660x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Destination Mars\" width=\"300\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/destination-mars-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/destination-mars-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/destination-mars-768x1192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/destination-mars.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My book <em>Destination Mars: The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet<\/em> is published today. As mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/hot-science\/\">a few weeks ago<\/a>, it\u2019s the first title in a brand new series from Icon Books called Hot Science, edited by Brian Clegg. Brian is one of Britain\u2019s top popular science writers, and he gave me some really helpful pointers on the style and content of the book. Hopefully that means it turned out almost as slick and professional as one of Brian\u2019s own books!<\/p>\n<p>With a list price of just \u00a37.99, <em>Destination Mars<\/em> is available from all good bookshops, as well the usual online retailers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1785782258\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1785782258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=forteana-21&amp;linkId=15c2d556f0d4d2a78736b20685d9f183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon UK<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1785782258\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1785782258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=forteana-20&amp;linkId=344e36d32cff07db3ab1f6677b524cf9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To whet your appetite, here is a quick summary of the book\u2019s contents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preface: From Science Fiction to Science Fact<\/li>\n<li>Chapter 1: <strong>The Lure of the Red Planet<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Our Solar System neighbour \u2013 Another Earth? \u2013 The Real Mars<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 2: <strong>How to Get to Mars<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Rocket science \u2013 Action and reaction \u2013 The long way round \u2013 Landing on Mars<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 3: <strong>Martian Robots<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Fifty years of Mars exploration \u2013 Lost in space \u2013 Anything a human can do?<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 4: <strong>From a Small Step to a Giant Leap<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>The race to the Moon \u2013 Mars is harder \u2013 Risk management<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 5: <strong>Big Plans<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Visionaries vs politicians \u2013 Mars Direct \u2013 One step at a time \u2013 Roadmap to Mars<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 6: <strong>Private Enterprise<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Commercial space flight \u2013 Making life multiplanetary \u2013 Human interest<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 7: <strong>Living on Mars<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>Colonisation \u2013 Martian sustainability \u2013 Terraforming<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Chapter 8: <strong>The New Space Race<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>The contenders \u2013 A wild card \u2013 Mars fever<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Recommended Resources<\/li>\n<li>List of Abbreviations<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book Destination Mars: The Story of Our Quest to Conquer the Red Planet is published today. As mentioned a few weeks ago, it\u2019s the first title in a brand new series from Icon Books called Hot Science, edited by Brian Clegg. Brian is one of Britain\u2019s top popular science writers, and he gave me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/out-now-destination-mars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out now &#8211; Destination Mars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,21,39,23],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mars","tag-my-books","tag-popular-science","tag-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}