A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
St. Catherine University
Mendel Hall, Room 106
2004 Randolph Ave.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
This fall, St. Catherine University is hosting biologist and author, Dr. Kelly Weinersmith. Her research has been featured in The Atlantic, National Geographic, BBC World, Science, Nature, and more
Kelly co-wrote the New York Times bestsellers Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve And/Or Ruin Everything and A City on Mars. In 2024, she and her coauthor and husband Zach received a Hugo Award and the Royal Society Trivedi Book Prize for A City on Mars.
”Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away beckons — with no climate change, no war, no X — and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp.
“Or is it? My co-author and husband and I are sci-fi geeks who set out to write a book about the glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, we aren’t so sure it’s a good idea
“Get in, we’re going to Mars.”
