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English
Bloomsbury Academic USA
16 May 2024
Series: Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

In 1971, the first lunar rover arrived on the moon. The design became an icon of American ingenuity and the adventurous spirit and vision many equated with the space race.

Fifty years later, that vision feels like a nostalgic fantasy, but the lunar rover’s legacy paved the way for Mars rovers like Sojourner, Curiosity, and Perseverance. Other rovers have made accessible the world’s deepest caves and most remote tundra, extending our exploratory range without risking lives.

Still others have been utilized for search and rescue missions or in clean up operations after disasters such as Chernobyl.

For all these achievements, rovers embody not just our potential, but our limits. Examining rovers as they wander our terrestrial and celestial boundaries, we might better comprehend our place, and fate, in this universe.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 165mm,  Width: 121mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781501399954
ISBN 10:   1501399950
Series:   Object Lessons
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
PART I 1. Moonscapes 2. Author’s Note 3. Moonbeams 4. Splendid Terror 5. California Stars 6. Autopia 7. Drive 8. Barriers 9. Alienation 10. Must Man Explore 11. Head-on Collisions Intermezzo 12. Moonwalkers PART II 13. Close Encounters 14. Vital Signs 15. Pathfinders 16. Sojourners 17. Mad Scientists 18. Ruins 19. Deniers 20. Lifeboats 21. Mentor 22. The Rover at the End of the World 23. Eulogy Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Stewart Lawrence Sinclair is a writer and journalist based in New York. He has been published in Guernica Magazine, Literary Hub, 3:AM Magazine, The Millions, Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New Orleans Review, among others. He is the author of Juggling (2023) and is originally from Ventura, California.

Reviews for Space Rover

Moving nimbly from the moon to Mars, from the depths of the Atlantic to a nuclear reactor, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair artfully traces a history of amazing mechanical rovers through the Cold War, the Chernobyl disaster, the 9/11 attack, and his own upbringing near NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Instigated by the discovery of old photos after a devastating wildfire, Space Rover clears an astutely unpredictable and philosophical path from Sinclair’s boyhood in Southern California through a rich cultural history of mechanical wanderers. Space Rover is an auspicious call for – and at times, a solemn caution against – wandering. What a thought-provoking exploration of the purposeful meandering that humans and their mechanized, roving proxies do! * Anna Leahy, Professor of English and Director of MFA in Creative Writing, Chapman University, USA, and author of Tumor (Bloomsbury, 2017) *


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