Would a near extinction event spur an interest in space travel?
What do Viking colonies teach us about space colonization? The former offers a dire lesson about why the latter may become necessary. Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams discusses the circumstances that could force humanity to avoid a “planetary Greenland.” Although Jane Smiley has made the haunting story of the Viking settlement of Greenland widely known…
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Paul Gilster -- Centauri Dreams
Vargas Llosa: Fiction provides an escape, and makes the impossible possible
Peruvian writer and winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in LiteratureMario Vargas Llosa, gave a moving Nobel Prize lecture, “In Praise of Reading and Fiction“, about the importance of fiction to his life and to humanity. Says Vargas Llosa: But thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires, and…
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Biology in Science Fiction