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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Human”

  • Wendy J. Fox
  • August 9, 2021
Man was living on the moon but Medicare was still a disaster.
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Lower Orbits: Remembering Gherman Titov

  • Christine Spillson
  • August 3, 2017
His story is more than just a story about space, but also a story about history and how it moves. How time and space bend, burn, warp, and ignore.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • December 6, 2016
Why Finnish women matter to the history of science fiction. Holiday science books: let visions of squid and sarcophagi dance in their heads. Astronauts survive thanks to a black female mathematician.…
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • January 29, 2016
This week, we have two stories of time machines and space stations, but mostly of people who clean up messes. Amber Sparks’s second collection of short stories, The Unfinished World,…
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Dialogue with an Astronaut

  • Casey Dayan
  • June 13, 2014
When I started the book, I hadn’t planned on it being only dialogue. I knew it would be primarily a series of interviews, or interrogations, but I figured there would…
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In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 14, 2013
Actually, according to this Atlantic blog post, in space, you can’t really cry at all. Astronauts can, certainly, tear up—they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t…
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Morning Coffee

  • Dan Weiss
  • March 18, 2010
Dolphins are really tired of all this “trying to swim with them” crap. Looking for a job? Flavorwire wants to show you their favorite pieces of SoCal architecture. Exploring the…
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