Nonfiction · Scale Wars · Space volume
The High Ground: Claiming the Void
The Moon matters once oxygen, depot tanks, transport, and paying customers make the climb cheap.
- Frontier nonfiction
- Scale Wars · Space volume
- 594 pages
- February 11, 2026
- Kindle on Amazon
About this book
The High Ground is the space-side Scale Wars volume, mapping lunar and orbital industry through what actually scales: propellant, power, heavy transport, property rights, and who funds the first haul.
Skip the sci-fi colonization pitch. This book tracks the real cost gradients: what lunar oxygen unlocks, how orbital tank farms change the math, and which unglamorous supply chains have to exist first.
The Scale Wars pair
- The High Ground — this book, the space frontier
- The Deep Harvest — the Earth frontier: deep heat, seabed minerals, lithium, hydrogen
Both volumes stand alone and read in any order.