{"id":791805,"date":"2024-12-06T04:59:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791805"},"modified":"2024-12-06T04:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:59:03","slug":"a-city-on-mars-authors-kelly-and-zach-weinersmith-on-whether-we-can-and-should-settle-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791805","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A City on Mars&#8217; authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on whether we can and should settle space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2459043\">\n<section class=\"ArticleContent\">\n<p>The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Kelly and Zach Weinersmith\u2019s <em>A City on Mars, <\/em>a book that delves into whether the dream of settling new worlds could turn into a nightmare for both the pioneers and those left behind. They tackle every space-related question you\u2019ve ever had, and plenty you haven\u2019t yet imagined. This week, our culture editor Alison Flood caught up with the award-winning novelists to understand why, after years of research, they have grown sceptical of the supposed benefits of settling space, why we should be thinking about law in space sooner rather than later, and why they started calling themselves the \u201cspace bastards\u201d.<\/p>\n<h4>Read more: A new life on Mars? Expect toxic dust, bad vibes and insects for lunch<\/h4>\n<section class=\"ArticleTopics\">\n<p class=\"ArticleTopics__Heading\">Topics:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/video\/2459043-why-kelly-and-zach-weinersmith-are-sceptical-about-a-future-on-mars\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Kelly and Zach Weinersmith\u2019s A City on Mars, a book that delves into whether the dream of settling new worlds could turn&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}