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But these are not the 1960s, and in recent years NASA's reputation has plummeted faster than a burned-out rocket booster. Ever since the Challenger blew up less than two minutes after liftoff in January 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard, the agency has seemed lost in space. Shuttle...
So from funky to freaky with friends takin' yo by the hand and leading you to Mars where we WANT the funk, we GOT TO HAVE that funk. No sir Sir Nose D'Voidof Funk. And psychadelics and psychadelia and even th'MOTHERS turn this mother out and acid laced...
Q: The Darker Proof, the collection of stories you wrote with Adam Mars-Jones, was one of the first books of short fiction to deal with AIDS. What kinds of literary issues do you think AIDS brings up?
A: It was really Adam Mars-Jones' idea to do it. His idea was that if you write an AIDS novel there's a sort of inevitability about it because of the nature of the novel. The trajectory of the novel--particularly an AIDS novel--is a trajectory that ends...
But the mission is more than a risky effort to bring an ailing telescope back to health. It's a chance -- maybe the last good chance -- to revitalize NASA's faltering image, which has suffered one blow after another since the Challenger explosion in 1986. Just in the past year...