“It is a comfort to know how swiftly and thoroughly a civilization can crumble when nobody wants it anymore,” Rowan says early in his story…that observation is more than just a wry criticism of our current defunding of space exploration. It’s an indictment of the entire anti-scientific mindset that’s become increasingly, alarmingly prevalent in too many pockets of American society today.
NPR reviews Jeffrey Rotters’ The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering and looks at the post-apocalyptic (and post-scientific) world it creates.
