Fly Me to the Moon: and other stories - Softcover

Dyson, Marianne J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1518771319 ISBN 13: 9781518771316

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

This collection of Marianne Dyson’s stories opens with Fireworks in Orbit about a space shuttle crew’s struggle to survive an explosion. The Critical Factor features a clone facing the end of the universe. The Pest Man is flash fiction for Halloween. Virtually Correct focuses on racial profiling. The Shape of Things to Come shows how cuteness favors survival. A Solution to the Orbital Debris Problem results from misinterpretations. Fly Me to the Moon has a young man help an Alzheimer's patient save a historian stranded on the Moon. Space Bugs uses microbes to get NASA funding. In Europa’s Survivors, a terminal cancer patient fills her final days with meaningful research. The print book includes a sonnet, The Artist’s Moon.

About this title

About the Author:

Marianne Dyson was one of the first female NASA flight controllers and is an award-winning author of children's books about space (including Welcome to Mars & To the Moon and Back, coauthored with Buzz Aldrin). Check out her publications, appearances, and blog via www.mDyson.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1518771319
• ISBN 13: 9781518771316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 175