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Artist impression of a Mars settlement with cutaway view.
Thursday, April 8, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT

James Wynn, “There’s No Place Like Home: Promotional Narratives, Science Fiction, and the Case for Mars Colonization”

As the English did with colonial “promotional literature”, how do you persuade people to leave their indigenous communities to start new ones in a foreign and sometimes hostile place?

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