Thursday Wonders...

[byslantedlight]

From today's apod at Nasa - Have you seen a panorama from another world lately? ...this one sweeps across the magnificent desolation of the Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. Taken by Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module, the frame at the far left is the first picture taken by a person on another world.

The first picture taken by a person on another world... when you think about it, how amazing is that? And why aren't we trying to send more people to take more photos! *sighs for gorgeous science-fiction futures* Instead we've developed Facebook and Twitter, and turned our gazes navel-wards...

I'm reading Phil Rickman's Wine of Angels right now (and hate putting it down), but I must look out some good science fiction again when I've finished... Does anyone have any s-f recs? *g*

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[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

The first picture taken by a person on another world... when you think about it, how amazing is that? And why aren't we trying to send more people to take more photos! *sighs for gorgeous science-fiction futures*

Well, until we do, there's the pictures from Mars. :-) Curiosity has sent back some stunning photos.

Instead we've developed Facebook and Twitter, and turned our gazes navel-wards...

Boy, ain't that the truth.

I'm reading Phil Rickman's Wine of Angels right now (and hate putting it down), but I must look out some good science fiction again when I've finished... Does anyone have any s-f recs? *g*

I love Phil Richman! Especially his "Curfew" and "Candlenight." As for science fiction recs (and these are scifi, rather than fantasy):

Inherit the Stars by James Hogan (and its sequels)
Moonfall by Jack McDevitt
Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Dust by Charles Pellegrino
The Earth Is All that Lasts, Children of the Earth and The Earth Saver by Catherine Wells

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well, until we do, there's the pictures from Mars. :-) Curiosity has sent back some stunning photos.
It's true, they're fab too - but I think it's the actual human contact that draws me in, not just that we've sent cameras somewhere, but that a human being has done the same thing that I do - stood with a camera taking photographs - on a different world...

I'm very much enjoying Phil Rickman's book, and I'll definitely look at some of this others - though I do wish they'd used thinner paper and wider margins for printing, this particular copy is incredibly thick and hard to hold - and it doesn't need to be!

And yeay, s-f recs, just what I was looking for! I read s-f until it came out my ears, for years, but somehow it's been at least as many since I read any last, so... recs are helpful! Thank you! (I don't think I've read any of those either, or at least not that I remember - some familiar titles, though!) *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Fantastic pic - and it's a stunning thought, isn't it. And maybe, just maybe, if the human race survives our own stupid side, ages from now these will be like the way we think of Magellan and Columbus and little wooden ships ... and people will wonder how their ancestors ever dared travel in those tiny, flimsy spaceships with no room for a decent village on board and not even a forcefield - just a skin of matter between them and space .... *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

... and people will wonder how their ancestors ever dared travel in those tiny, flimsy spaceships with no room for a decent village on board and not even a forcefield - just a skin of matter between them and space ....
Oooh, what a wonderful thought - yes! *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Echo by Ellis Ward *GGG*
Of Angels and Angles by Sarah K.

And to be honest, the pictures that moved me most about other worlds are from "Treasureplanet", the movie....*g*
But I REALLY like the thought about the flimsy Spaceships from Heliophile!