USA USA!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... a-e-butler" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Science-fiction author honoured in Nasa’s chosen name for Mars rover’s touchdown.
“Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it’s heaven in a way,” Octavia E Butler wrote in her acclaimed novel Parable of the Sower. Decades later, Nasa has informally named the touchdown site of the Mars rover Perseverance after the late science fiction novelist.
Nasa said there was “no better person” to mark the landing site than Butler. “Her guiding principle, ‘When using science, do so accurately,’ is what the science team at Nasa is all about. Her work continues to inspire today’s scientists and engineers across the globe – all in the name of a bolder, more equitable future for all,” said Nasa’s Thomas Zurbuchen.
Butler, the first African American woman to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards, and the first sci-fi writer honoured with a MacArthur “genius” grant, is the author of novels including Kindred Bloodchild, as well as the remarkably prescient 1993 dystopia Parable of the Sower. The latter was set in the 2020s, where climate change and inequality have turned America into a place of chaos; its 1998 sequel, Parable of the Talents, sees a violent, far-right president ascend, promising to “make America great again”. Butler died in 2006.
Perseverance Martian landing point named after Octavia E Butlerwont be long now, till...
- Intrinsic
- Advanced Grower
-
Karma Hippie
- Has bestowed Karma : 1751 times
- Received Karma : 1537 times
- Posts: 7656
- Joined: Thu May 21, 2009 10:51 am
-
- MPG Ambassador
-
Karma Hippie
- Custom Title: eye the witch Melancholy
- Location: socal
- Has bestowed Karma : 33 times
- Received Karma : 28 times
- Posts: 17529
- Joined: Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:38 pm
wont be long now, till...
ive know the name for years now
been meaning to find a book or two of hers...
been meaning to find a book or two of hers...
"we must strive to become good ancestors" nader
https://www.myplanetganja.com/viewforum.php?f=48
FUCK jimmydorecomedy.com
https://www.myplanetganja.com/viewforum.php?f=48
FUCK jimmydorecomedy.com