The papers are arranged in five sections:
Resources: Human, Technological, and Cosmic;
Demography and Economics: Growth of the Human Tribe;
Migrating Societies;
Speciation;
Is Anybody Home?
Contents
- The Exploring Animal. 1985
- William K. Hartmann. The Resource Base in Our Solar System. 1985
- David Brin. Rocs' Eggs and Spider Webs: The First Hard Step Toward Building Starships. 1985
- David R. Criswell. Solar System Industrialization: Implications for Interstellar Migrations. 1985
- Eric M. Jones, Ben R. Finney. Fastships and Nomads: Two Roads to the Stars. 1985
- J. B. Birdsell. Biological Dimensions of Small, Human Founding Populations. 1985
- Kenneth W. Wachter. Predicting Demographic Contours of an Interstellar Future. 1985
- William A. Hodges. The Division of Labor and Interstellar Migration: A Response to Demographic Contours. 1985
- Eric M. Jones, Ben R. Finney. Comment on Hodges's "The Division of Labor". 1985
- Ben R. Finney. Voyagers into Ocean Space. 1985
- Richard B. Lee. Models of Human Colonization: San, Greeks, and Vikings. 1985
- Ben R. Finney. The Prince and the Eunuch. 1985
- Alfred W. Crosby. Life (With All Its Problems) in Space. 1985
- Nancy Makepeace Tanner. Interstellar Migration: The Beginning of a Familiar Process in a New Context. 1985
- Douglas W. Schwartz. The Colonizing Experience: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. 1985
- Edward Regis. The Moral Status of Multigenerational Interstellar Exploration. 1985
- James W. Valentine. The Origins of Evolutionary Novelty and Galactic Colonization. 1985
- Michael H. Hart. Interstellar Migration, the Biological Revolution, and the Future of the Galaxy. 1985
- William I. Newman, Carl Sagan. Nonlinear Diffusion and Population Dynamics. 1985
- Jill Tarter. Planned Observational Strategy for NASA's First Systematic Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). 1985