Dr. Robert Zubrin is president of Pioneer Astronautics, president of the Mars Society, a contributing editor of The New Atlantis, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, and the author of several books, including: The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (Free Press, 1996, 2011), Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization (Tarcher, 1999), First Landing (Ace, 2001), Mars on Earth: Adventures of Space Pioneers in the High Arctic (Tarcher, 2003), Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil (Prometheus Books, 2007), How to Live on Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet (Three Rivers Press, 2008), and Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism (Encounter Books, 2012). He lives in Colorado.