Article: “You mean space ships aren’t real?”
Originally published at A Singularity. You can comment here or there.
Sandra Tayler is the other half of the pair that make up the family Tayler. If that name is familiar it’s because I like Schlock Mercenary, a serial comic online written and drawn by Howard Tayler, the man who is famous (to me) for s stating that “You’re so talented.” is really an underhanded insult, and post links to the comic on this blog.
Sandra wrote a short but sweet article for Locus, a Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine that I would like to share.
Sandra Tayler-The Non-Fictional Sense of Wonder [Locus Magazine]
In the articles I write for Escape Pod I try to link modern science with science fiction. Sandra has pointed out I think yet another possible link between the people who pushed us so far out into the stars and what they read as children. I remember reading various novels about colonies on Mars as a child. I agree with Sandra that it is both thrilling that one needs to no longer look in the fiction section of the library to find inspiring stories about our exploration of space but sad that entertainment media out there that help to inspire young people to purse a career in space are fewer than they once were.
I suppose there is always Schlock Mercenary?
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