committee of the Mars Society. Zubrin was featured in a 2007 CBC News documentary special, The Passionate Eye, titled "The Mars Underground". The songwriter and musician Frank Black (alias Black Francis of the Pixies) penned an homage to Zubrin, "Robert Onion", on the album Dog in the Sand. The lyrics are in the form of an acrostic, spelling "Robert The Case for Mars Zubrin". In 2010 Robert Zubrin was featured in the Symphony of Science video "The Case for Mars" along with Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston. The fictional character Dr. Zachary Walzer in the 2010–2011 independent VODO series Pioneer One was inspired by Zubrin. In 2016, Zubrin was one of several scientists and engineers interviewed in the National Geographic miniseries Mars. Bibliography Books The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996) Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (1996), co-edited with Stanley Schmidt. From Imagination to Reality: Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society : Precursors and Early Piloted Exploration Missions (1997). From Imagination to Reality: Mars Exploration Studies of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society : Base Building, Colonization and Terraformation (1997). Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization (1999). Proceedings of the Founding Convention of the Mars Society (1999), co-edited with Maggie Zubrin. Mars On Earth: The Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic (2003). First Landing (2001). On to Mars: Colonizing a New World (2002 Apogee Books), co-edited with Frank Crossman. The Holy Land (2003). Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts (2005). On to Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World (2005 Apogee Books), co-edited with Frank Crossman. Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil (2007). How to Live on Mars (2008). Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (2011). Mars Direct: Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future (2013). The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility Prometheus Books (2019) Articles 1991, Mars Direct: A Simple, Robust, and Cost Effective Architecture for the Space Exploration Initiative, AIAA Journal 2004, Getting Space Exploration Right, The New Atlantis 2006, An Energy Revolution, The American Enterprise 2007, The Hydrogen Hoax, The New Atlantis References External links 1952 births Living people 21st-century American male