Looking for a beautiful way to kill some time on a weekend afternoon? Listen to Liev Schreiber reading Italo Calvino’s “The Distance of the Moon”, from Cosmicomics. It’s a tale of the evolution of our moon, from a time when it was not so far away, milked for nourishment by lunar herdsmen.
How wonderful that a story could be built on science (our moon did used to be closer to us, and moves farther away every year) yet journey so far into the imagination!
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Isaac Asimov’s science fiction magazine from march 1980. I bought every one the store had! It’s the next best thing to time travel! ;)
BEST SIDEBURNS SINCE VAN BUREN.
WILL PAY GOOD MONEY FOR THIS.
Why am I yelling?
History of Science Fiction – a hand-drawn graphic chronology by Ward Shelley mapping the literary genre from its nascent roots in mythology to the calcified post-Star Wars era.
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