Marina Benjamin has worked as a journalist for fifteen years. She was arts editor of the New Statesman and deputy arts editor at the London Evening Standard, and she has written columns for the Daily Express and for Scotland on Sunday. Her last book, Rocket Dreams, was shortlisted for the Eugene Emme Literature Award. Marina lives in London with her husband and daughter.
Financial Times A fascinating cultural history of American
utopianism.
Publishers Weekly Elegantly written....Space buffs will appreciate
many aspects of [Marina Benjamin's] story.
The Space Age of the 1960s never lived up to its aspirations. Ever since the manned exploration of space beyond Earth's orbit ended abruptly with the Apollo moon missions, disappointed people have been trying to fulfill America's outer-space ambitions here on this planet. Benjamin, a journalist who has authored books on millennialism and women in science, grew up watching NASA spaceflights on television. In six personal chapters, she describes how she and others have sought to find substitutes for space exploration by investigating aliens in Roswell, NM, shopping in enclosed malls that mimic space stations, colonizing cyberspace, and cooperatively searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. At times, her text seems disconnected, alternately reading like an autobiography, a sociological treatise on astronautics, and an investigative report, but she clearly and articulately supports her intriguing thesis. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.-Jeffrey Beall, Univ. of Colorado at Denver Lib. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Financial Times A fascinating cultural history of American
utopianism.
Publishers Weekly Elegantly written....Space buffs will
appreciate many aspects of [Marina Benjamin's] story.
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