The blog QuasarDragon has introduced me to “The Ambassador,” a new short story by Mark Lawrence, which you can read online at Afterburn SF. A fast-paced “Us and Them” story infused with science, medicine, and romance, the plot revolves around Aryans on Earth and their long-lost multiracial descendants on Mars. With each considering the other to be non-human and a threat, the two branches struggle to cooperate in the face of a common foe.
For a nonfiction story about an ambassador to Mars, read “NASA Ambassador is a Solar Man,” a recent Minnesota newspaper article about Earle Kyle, a volunteer for NASA Solar System Ambassadors. When Kyle read the old 1952 Collier's magazine articles by Wernher von Braun about sending a man to Mars, he was hooked for life:
"Mars missions will do the same for future generations and the space research may help with such critical problems as global warming and food and water shortages.”
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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How did you become interested
in SF on Mars? Just curious.
Terry Finley
http://mrwanderingwriter.blogspot.com/
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