Alternate History: What If the Space Race Never Ended?

By Ethan Warner

Alternate History: What If the Space Race Never Ended? by Ethan Warner is a gripping work of speculative non-fiction that reimagines a world where the United States and Soviet Union never ceased their orbital rivalry. What would humanity look like today if the space race had persisted beyond the 1970s, pushing innovation, ideology, and industry to the stars?

This provocative book explores an alternate timeline filled with lunar colonies, crewed Mars missions, multinational orbital cities, and a complex geopolitical landscape reshaped by relentless spacefaring ambition. Through detailed analysis and richly imagined scenarios, Warner investigates the implications of a never-ending space race-from technological leapfrogging and environmental consequences to shifting global power structures and the evolution of off-world cultures.

Bringing together science, politics, ethics, and culture, Warner traces how sustained competition in space could have driven advances in renewable energy, artificial intelligence, and reusable rocketry-while also exacerbating Earth-bound inequalities and ecological strains.

Perfect for readers of speculative history, futurism, and science policy, Alternate History: What If the Space Race Never Ended? is both a cautionary tale and an invitation to imagine a bolder future that might have been.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F8W7RYF9
• ISBN13: 9798284109571
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"