Upcoming Events
Bookstore Romance Day
Saturday, August 21, 6 pm EST/ 5 pm CST
BrocheAroe, owner of River Dog Book Co., will be moderating this exciting panel: Historical Mystery, With Love Panel with authors Tasha Alexander (The Dark Heart of Florence: A Lady Emily Mystery), Y.S. Lee (The Agency: Rivals in the City), Deanna Raybourn (An Unexpected Peril), and Sherry Thomas (Miss Moriarty, I Presume?).
This virtual event is free to attend.
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#ReadingWomenLeaders Bookclub + Author Event
Sunday, August 22, 3 pm EST/ 2 pm CST
Join River Dog Book Co. owner and participants from all over the country to discuss Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars with the author, Kate Greene!
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About Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars
When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like?
In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA's first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study on her crew mates and gaining incredible insight into human behavior in tight quarters, as well as the nature of boredom, dreams, and isolation that arise amidst the promise of scientific progress and glory.
In Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars, Greene draws on her experience to contemplate humanity's broader impulse to explore. The result is a twined story of space and life, of the standard, able-bodied astronaut and Greene's brother's disability, of the lag time of interplanetary correspondences and the challenges of a long-distance marriage, of freeze-dried egg powder and fresh pineapple, of departure and return.
By asking what kind of wisdom humanity might take to Mars and elsewhere in the Universe, Greene has written a remarkable, wide-ranging examination of our time in space right now, as a pre-Mars species, poised on the edge, readying for launch.
About Kate Greene
Kate Greene was the crew writer and second-in-command on the first simulated Mars mission for the NASA-funded HI-SEAS project. A poet, essayist, and former laser physicist, her work has appeared in multiple publications and radio shows. She’s taught writing at Columbia University, San Francisco State University, and the Tennessee Prison for Women. She lives in New York City.