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From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. "Rocket Dreams" is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and mutated into new fascination with space. It is about our unquenchable desire to reach out to other worlds, physical and imaginative. From the Apollo astronauts to the military origins of the internet, and the whole phenomenon of 'virtual communities', it reveals how the ideals and longings pinned on cyberspace have evolved directly from those of the space age. Space dreams have been transformed into screen dreams, but the longing for communication with 'the other' lies at the heart of both.

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Book category Books in English Lifestyle, sport & leisure Natural history Popular astronomy & space

• Full title: Rocket Dreams
• Author: Marina Benjamin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780099546535
• ISBN: 0099546531
• ID: 04491854
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 197 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. August 2009

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