I had Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Moon on my Goodreads to-read list for a long time, mainly because I’m a fan of his other work and the title sounded evocative. But I put off reading it time and again because the Goodreads summary didn’t give much indication of how much systemic transition figured in the…

“The biggest challenge to getting functioning space hotels and moon colonies might not even be, you know, building them and subsisting in space,” writes Jason Koebler (“The First Space Colonies Might Be Illegal,” Vice, May 15). “Instead, it might be navigating the tricky international legal framework governing off-world ownership.” Koebler’s concerns, which he hangs on…