I'm currently reading this and highly recommend it: smart, funny and insightful about the realities of space travel & colonization.
On SpaceX's IPO day I'd like to remind folks that @zachweinersmith.bsky.social & I wrote "A City on Mars"* abt the problems & perils of settling Mars. A million people on Mars can't safely be done in Musk's lifetime.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449...
*Hugo & Royal Society Book Prize winner
