In this preview from “The Saucerian,” author Gabriel McKee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”
Gabriel Mckee is a librarian for collections and services at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is a coeditor of Theology and[…]
If an asteroid hadn’t killed off the dinosaurs, humans would almost certainly have never walked the Earth.
Govert Schilling is the author of dozens of popular astronomy books, including Target Earth: Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet (The MIT Press). His writing[…]
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