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Kubrick, Steinbeck, and Stine, Oh My!
Welcome to the National Steinbeck Center, the largest museum dedicated to an American author. Happy birthday, Stanley Kubrick. Here is a letter he wrote to Arthur C. Clarke. Happy birthday,...
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A Stowaway to the Thanatosphere: My Voyage Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2012 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! On a brisk December day in 1972, the SS Statendam left...
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A Space Odyssey
You will be relieved to learn that Arthur C. Clarke’s DNA is going where no man has gone before. Prior to his 2008 death, the science fiction legend graciously donated several strands of hair to...
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HAL, Mother, and Father
Watching the sixties and seventies through 2001 and Alien. It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain that what he was seeing...
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HAL, Mother, and Father
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! From 2001: A Space Odyssey Watching the sixties and seventies through...
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Staff Picks: Unspooling, Erupting, and Recoiling
An image of Tambora taken by the Space Shuttle in 1992, with a view of the caldera produced by the 1815 eruption. On a sad, sad morning, thanks to J. J. Sullivan for sending us this 1989 cover of “When...
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