David Guston, Foundation Professor, Associate Vice Provost, School for the Future of Innovation in Society in the Rob Walton College of Global Futures, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, is series editor on From the Earth to the Moon: Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age, a new publication in MIT Press. Alongside fellow series editors Ed Finn, Center Director and Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and Joey Eschrich, Managing Editor, KE School for the Future of Innovation in Society - Center for Science and the Imagination.
Says Guston: MIT Press has just released a new edition of Jules Verne's science fiction classic, From the Earth to the Moon, edited by Anastasia Klimchynskaya. Following on the success of Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds, the book is the first title formally published under the Imagination, Annotated series, edited by Ed Finn, David H. Guston, and Joey Eschrich. Another new title, Virus: Annotated for Today's Global Digital Humans (and Aliens), written by Indian physicist and author Jayant Narlikar and edited by Sami Ahmad Khan, will be released in November.
A brief summary follows:
From the Earth to the Moon is regarded as a foundational contribution to hard science fiction, as well as a prescient and influential book in the history of space flight. This edition - edited by Anastasia Klimchymskaya and translated by Walter James Miller, featuring the original illustrations, and accompanied by rich annotations and additional essays -- connects contemporary readers to Jules Verne's early vision that continues to manifest in the creation of space districts and plans for extraterrestrial exploration. Verne, and Klimchymskaya and colleagues show us that the technological and social are deeply intertwined as we imagine and build to the Moon, the planets, and beyond.
