May/June 2003
The Summer Reading issue of StarDate magazine, Flights of Fancy, Flights of Fact, features "Double Lives," by freelance writer Rick Wilber. Rick will introduce you to astronomers and space scientists who infuse their fiction writing efforts with healthy doses of science fact. We'll also bring you excerpts from two such "hard science fiction" novels: In astronomer Gregory Benford's novel Eater, scientists discover an unknown entity approaching Earth from the edges of our solar system, and soon find that it's ready to talk. In NASA engineer Geoffrey Landis' novel Mars Crossing, the third expedition to Mars finds itself in trouble as their craft is unable to take off. In order to survive, they must trek hundreds of kilometers across the surface of the red planet, to the landing site of the first Mars expedition.
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