{"id":102698,"date":"2020-02-23T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/elon-musk-shares-the-science-fiction-book-series-that-inspired-him-to-start-spacex"},"modified":"2020-02-23T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T10:03:09","slug":"elon-musk-shares-the-science-fiction-book-series-that-inspired-him-to-start-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/elon-musk-shares-the-science-fiction-book-series-that-inspired-him-to-start-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk shares the science fiction book series that inspired him to start SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-shares-the-science-fiction-book-series-that-inspired-him-to-start-spacex2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a teenage boy, Elon Musk felt a \u201cpersonal obligation\u201d for the fate of mankind, according to the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future\/dp\/006230125X?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cElon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future\u201d<\/a> by Ashlee Vance.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/02\/21\/billionaire-elon-musk-credits-his-success-to-these-8-books.html\">love of books<\/a> and the lessons he took from them inspired him to create \u201ccleaner energy technology or [build] spaceships to extend the human species\u2019s reach\u201d in the future, according to Vance.<\/p>\n<p>One set of those books Musk still recommends today: the seven-book<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Foundation-Trilogy-Isaac-Asimov\/dp\/1607962748?tag=lifeboatfound-20\" target=\"_blank\"> \u201cFoundation\u201d<\/a> science fiction series by scientist and author Isaac Asimov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a teenage boy, Elon Musk felt a \u201cpersonal obligation\u201d for the fate of mankind, according to the book \u201cElon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future\u201d by Ashlee Vance. Musk\u2019s love of books and the lessons he took from them inspired him to create \u201ccleaner energy technology or [build] spaceships to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}