by J. P. Landau
About the Book
And then, at the beginning of 2015, he read an article about Enceladus that simultaneously triggered a sense of childlike wonder and a feeling of outrage. He thought of himself as a fairly educated person, so why hadn’t he heard about its water ocean before? The bigger question became, how does the general public become informed about these things which—if studied and explored—could have monumental implications for each one of us? What could he do? It was too late to become an astronaut (or failing that, a scientist), so his first reaction was ‘nothing.’ Yet after a few weeks it dawned on him: “Tell an irresistible human story about space exploration.” Make it into a book that is read by millions, and then turn that into a movie that is watched by billions.12 This aspires to be that book.
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12 By some accounts, Avatar, James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi movie, has been watched by roughly a fourth of the world population. That’s a stupefying reach. The space community needs an Avatar-like success to stir humanity into action.