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The Voyager record : a transmission / Anthony Michael Morena.
- Title
- The Voyager record : a transmission / Anthony Michael Morena.
- Author
- Morena, Anthony Michael
- Publication
- Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9510.9.M64 V69 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 164 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- Late summer 1977: two identical robotic spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral. Their divergent paths through the solar system take them past gas giants, icy moons, asteroid belts, and eventually into the unknown of interstellar space. There, they will continue to travel on forever, the fastest moving objects ever created by humans. The Voyagers carry a message from Earth, a phonograph record plated with gold containing 27 songs, 118 images, and greetings in 55 languages meant to summarize all life on our planet for the extraterrestrials who might one day encounter the crafts. The Voyager Record : A Transmission is the record of that record: a history in fragments exploring how legendary astronomer Carl Sagan and his team attempted to press the entire human race into a single groove. Combining elements of poetry, flash fiction, and essay, Anthony Michael Morena creates a collage of music, observation, humor, and alienation. Giving the 38-year-old original playlist a B-side update, Morena's The Voyager Record calls out to its namesake across the billions of miles of emptiness: Send more answers.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-158).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781941628041 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 1941628044 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 9781941628058 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016006672
- OCLC
- 942885125
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library