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In highly politicised times, is living off-world something we should entertain, let alone do? Adriana Marais’s futurist dream Out of This World and Into the Next feels tone deaf
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Out of this World and into the Next
Adriana Marais (Profile Books (UK); Pegasus Books (US))
Do you yearn to leave dusty footprints on the moon or prowl the rocks of Mars? Could a new life await you on future off-world colonies? Theoretical physicist Adriana Marais is convinced we are on “the brink of a new era” of humanity, where we will spread across the worlds of our solar system – and perhaps farther.
Out of this World and into the Next is Marais’s…
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