Episode 1: Stranger than Fiction
Posted in podcasts, tagged 1950s, America, astronomy, gender, history of science, Mars, sci fi, science fiction, space, War of the Worlds, Wells, women on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Today’s show considers some of the ways that science fiction has drawn inspiration from planetary science.
Host essay: “Dying Planet”
for further reading:
Robert Markley, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).
Michael J. Crowe, The Extraterrestrial Life [...]