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Jonathan Lethem, "Lostronaut"

Good morning everyone. The short story in the latest New Yorker written by Jonathan Lethem is a startling pick for the magazine. When was the last time you read science-fiction in the New Yorker??

Told in a series of letters written by a female astronaut stranded in a space station to her signficant other, Chase living in New York, this excerpt is sure to get your day started on just the right depressing note!

We’re soaring atoms, Chase, that’s what orbit consists of, the inhuman hastening of infinitesimal specklike bodies through an awesome indifferent void, yet in our cramped homely craft, its rooms named to evoke childhood comforts, with our blobs of toothpaste drifting between our brushes and the mirror, our farts and halitosis filling the chambers with odor, we’ve defaulted to an illusion of substance. Inside Northern Lights, we’ve managed to kid ourselves that we exist, that we’re curvaceous or lumpy or angular, bristling with hair and snot, taking up a certain amount of room, and that space and time have generously accorded a margin in which we’re invited to operate these sizable greedy bodies of ours, a margin in which to dwell, to hang out and live our pale stinky stories.

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Concept Ship

One of my favorite websites, which appeals to my inner geek, is Concept Ships which displays mind-blowing creations by various artists depicting ships of the future. I really like the subtly of this one by Chris Thunig:

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Short Story: "Harrison Bergeron" by Vonnegut

The opening paragraph of "Harrison Bergeron," a short story by Kurt Vonnegut should be enough to pique your interest:

The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

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