With a foreword from Ken MacLeodContributions from Pippa Goldschmidt Laura Lam Russell Jones Alastair Bruce Sean McMahon Elsa Bouet Beth Biller Tacye Phillipson Catherine Heymans Matjaz Vidmar Afterword from Colin R McInnes Scotland has big plans for its space industry in the next decade opening Europeamprsquos first orbital spaceport expanding further its satellite research and manufacturing industry and developing a amppound4 billion space industry by 2030 Astronomy and Astrophysics have been important fields of study in Scottish universities since the eighteenth century and worldleading research continues to be produced here today And in contemporary Scottish literature sciencefiction writing is flourishing Scotland in Space Creative Visions and Critical Reflections on Scotlandamprsquos Space Futures brings together these three strands to generate dialogues between literary authors natural and social scientists and scholars working in the humanities to envision some of Scotlandamprsquos potential space futures The book comprises three sections in each of which an original piece of science fiction is accompanied by essays that respond to the ideas the story evokes The...
