Reader's Room: The Crazy Idea

Jun 30, 2017

Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week we talk about the crazy ideas that have propelled us forward, even if we didn't know we could reach them.

Show links:

• Elon Musk's presentation Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species (pdf) (Available until July 5, 2017)
• Ordinary rockets sometimes land on farmhouses.
• Linkdump:
  • Sylvain Neuvel's Waking Gods, the sequel to Sleeping Giants.
  • Curtis Chen's Kangaroo Too, the sequel to Waypoint Kangaroo.
  • The XPrize foundation put a bunch of SF authors on a plane and sent them 20 years into the future. Here's what they saw

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