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Fly Me to the Moon : and other stories
Overview
When the only person with the knowledge to help you escape the Moon has Alzheimer's, you have a problem. In Fly Me to the Moon, Dyson deals with this and other problems, drawing on her experience as a NASA flight controller to add depth and realism to her stories. She shares journeys into diverse futures, where the reader experiences taking drastic actions during a spacewalk, making a life-changing discovery on Jupiter's moon, and contemplating if the life of a cloned human is worth saving at the end of the universe. Participate in adventures and unravel thought experiments in racial profiling, misinterpretations of data, and a fear of bugs in this unique story collection.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781518771316
- ISBN-10: 1518771319
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: October 2015
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 176
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