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| Tango01 | 26 Oct 2016 9:08 p.m. PST |
…Novel The Terranauts. "Stop us if you've heard this one before: Eight people walk into a dome in Arizona. From the moment the airlock shuts behind them, they're for all intents and purposes living on another planet. For the next two years, these eight people will remain inside the three-acre dome, surviving on whatever food and resources they could grow; for the next two years, they'll see only each other. It sounds like either a science-fiction premise, or the worst season of The Real World ever. And in T.C. Boyle's novel The Terranauts, out today, it's a little bit of both. But the Biosphere 2 experiments actually happened in the early '90s, testing whether humans could live within a closed ecosystem on other planets, and gave us a rare look at where science and cultishness intersect. Boyle's book draws on his own history exploring those themes, and takes place on the thin line separating optimism from megalomania—thanks to a much-publicized, and still fascinating, experiment from 25 years ago…"
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