The Third Industrial Revolution

by G. Harry Stine

Cover art by Vincent Di Fate.

Genres: Nonfiction, Space, Science

234 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

George Harry Stine attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. Upon his graduation he went to work at White Sands Proving Grounds, first as a civilian scientist and then, from 1955–1957, at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Missile Test Facility as head of the Range Operations Division.

Stine and his wife Barbara were friends of author Robert A. Heinlein, who sponsored their wedding, as Harry's parents were dead and Barbara's mother too ill to travel. Several of Heinlein's books are dedicated one or both of them, most particularly Have Space Suit - Will Travel. Stine also wrote science articles for Popular Mechanix.

G. Harry Stine also used these alternative names:

Lee Correy, Harry Stine, George Harry Stine.

Reviews

[David Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting but sorely outdated book; it's kind of The Third Wave for space manufacturing. Stine was wildly optimistic, predicting, basically, that great people would do great things in space in a short amount of time. It was written in 1975, at almost the exact moment that human travel in space came to a grinding halt. Forty-eight years later things are heating up again, but I don't think we've even scratched the surface of what Stine said was just around the corner. DNF