Austin McConnell – The Absurd 2nd Century Space Opera You’ll Never Read
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
And the whole Mythology thing; isn’t sci-fi?
I had to re read the Poison Radishes section, a favorite ….
in my authors signed edition.
Brian William’s autobiography at last, Baron Munchausen!
My calf hurts…
I had always thought that Frankenstein had been the first science fiction, but it is only the first popular sci fi. To think, Lucian missed out on being the first sci fi trilogy author.
Blair Ivey asked: “And the whole Mythology thing; isn’t sci-fi?”
No. That was fact, as everyone back then knew. It wasn’t particularly scientific, either, but more cultural.
I’ve read worse.
Also, it seems Lucian shares the work ethic of George R. R. Martin. Imagine through the ages people reading this first book to only discover, at great angst, the second book doesn’t exist. :-)
My calf hurts…
Ah, you gave birth with it?
Edward noted about Classical Mythology:
“No. That was fact, as everyone back then knew. It wasn’t particularly scientific, either, but more cultural.”
A good point. Like the modern Myths of ‘Constant Societal Oppression’, getting a pass, because “We Were Slaves, Man”, and ‘People of Color Are Automatically Oppressed’.
These are facts, as everyone these days knows
Blair Ivey,
You noted: “These are facts, as everyone these days knows”
Yes. Exactly. And a lot of important decisions are based upon these facts. Because we know them to be true. It is a good thing that they
are true, too, otherwise we would be making wrong or bad decisions.