Dale Brown: Fatal Terrain

500 pages.

Fatal Terrain at Amazon

Flight of the Old Dog

Dale Brown, 1987.  The book that started the Dreamland series

Project Orion, The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

George Dyson, 300 pages.

Fascinating story about how a group of scientists tried to make nuclear bomb powered spaceships.  Truly amazing, and to this day might be the best hope we have for making long distance space travel.

The Orion Project on Amazon