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A review by chris_davies
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
3.0
There is some good material in here, particularly in the first section, but as the book goes on Kaku is a bit like an over-excited child. From widely optimistic predictions (sending human consciousness across space on lasers within the next hundred years? Really?) to building towers of reasoning on very shaky foundations (e.g. wormholes based on string theory), it's all a bit OTT. I just wished he'd calm down a little, be more realistic.
He also, weirdly, favours film references to the books from which the stories came (maybe he thinks his readers will find this more accessible?) and is very, very keen to tell us that he has been on telly. Most of the best material I have read in better books, there's not a lot that's new here. Still, it's generally well written and would form a good primer for anyone new to this topic. Just don't get too carried away.
He also, weirdly, favours film references to the books from which the stories came (maybe he thinks his readers will find this more accessible?) and is very, very keen to tell us that he has been on telly. Most of the best material I have read in better books, there's not a lot that's new here. Still, it's generally well written and would form a good primer for anyone new to this topic. Just don't get too carried away.