Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the week. This week I visit some of the same craters that the Apollo astronauts walked on fifty years ago, and we talk about making up some history just so we can mess it up later.

Show links:

• Cinder Lakes Training Field (PDF) where the Apollo astronauts trained.
• S. (aka Ship of Theseus) by Doug Dorst and J. J. Abrams
• Linkdump:
  • Steal The Stars Tor Labs weekly dramatic podcast
  • The Economist explains algorithms
  • Robot Priests leading funerals in Japan at the Guardian.
  • Ten best SF stories you can read for free at The Chicago Review of Books
• Support:
  • Nevada Museum of Art, launching a satellite for the sake of art. (Kickstarter)
  • Escape Pod, weekly genre podcasts. (Patreon)
  • Story Hospital weekly, quality writing advice from a talented editor.

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