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Category Archives: Mars
Preface to my Novel about Colonizing Mars
I first thought about the lone colonist of Mars by the chance association between two very different and, some would say, antithetical ideas. I designed a university course on the changing perception of Mars in literature over the past two … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Mars, Solitude, Writing
Tagged face on Mars, first colonist on Mars, martian, The First Martian Colonist, woman waiting for a bus on mars
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Serendipity and Other People’s Hard Work: Contributing to Intellectual Society
Many years ago, when I used to build computers from found parts, installing hard drives was much more of an ordeal. You needed to look up the serial number of the hard drive in a database—if you were lucky enough … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Internet, Mars, Teaching
Tagged artifical gravity, orbital mechanics, science fiction, simulated gravity, youtube
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An Authorial Dream of Wealth and Success
Perhaps because my latest book, Not Quite Dark: A Post-Apocalyptic Adoption Story is doing well in terms of sales, I had a strange dream about being a popular writer the other night. I dreamed that Obama had unwittingly endorsed my … Continue reading
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Tagged Not Quite Dark, Obama, Surviving the Apocalypse, Thailand, Writing
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To Talk About Mars
No talk about Mars is complete unless you begin with Giovanni Schiaparelli and his canali. It has become almost a cliché in the field of exobiology, at least in terms of Mars, that ancient history, complete with Percival Lowell’s maps, … Continue reading
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Tagged Canali, Dr. Ed Cloutis, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Mariner, Mars, Mars Direct, Mars One, Percival Lowell, Princess of Mars, Robert Zubrin, Viking
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