Get Discount 5% Off
Subscribe to our newsletters now and stay up-to-date with new arrivals, updates and deals.
The Voyager Record: A Transmission
Literary Nonfiction. Lyric Essay. History-in-Fragments. Hybrid Genre. Winner of the Silver Medal in Nonfiction for Cover Design...
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
SKU:
9781941628041
Product Type:
Books
Please hurry! Only 0 left in stock
10 customers are viewing this product
Couldn't load pickup availability
Literary Nonfiction. Lyric Essay. History-in-Fragments. Hybrid Genre. Winner of the Silver Medal in Nonfiction for Cover Design at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Late summer 1977: two identical robotic spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral. Their divergent paths through the solar system take them past gas giants, icy moons, asteroid belts, and eventually into the unknown of interstellar space. There, they will continue to travel on forever, the fastest moving objects ever created by humans. The Voyagers carry a message from Earth, a phonograph record plated with gold containing 27 songs, 118 images, and greetings in 55 languages meant to summarize all life on our planet for the extraterrestrials who might one day encounter the crafts. THE VOYAGER RECORD: A TRANSMISSION is the record of that record: a history in fragments exploring how legendary astronomer Carl Sagan and his team attempted to press the entire human race into a single groove. Combining elements of poetry, flash fiction, and essay, Anthony Michael Morena creates a collage of music, observation, humor, and alienation. Giving the 38-year-old original playlist a B-side update, Morena's THE VOYAGER RECORD calls out to its namesake across the billions of miles of emptiness: Send more answers.
Anthony Michael Morena's THE VOYAGER RECORD is its own charming exploratory device. Combining backstage stories about the creation of the Voyager spacecraft's Golden Record (a touching dream of cramming a musical and visual portrait of our planet onto a single disk) and various imagined encounters with bemused or frightened alien cultures out there, Morena reveals how best intentions can be compromised, and how communication is subject to an infinitude of possible miscues. This is a quietly profound and entertaining book.--Philip Graham
In the 1970s, Voyager left Earth carrying a Golden Record meant to represent human life to alien 'recipients.' At the same time, a generation of children was also launched, into their own lives, each carrying a record of human evolution--its possibilities, leaps of faith, errors, and compromises--in the form of DNA. Anthony Michael Morena's graceful ekphrastic essay THE VOYAGER RECORD brims with the humility and hopefulness of these twin gestures, and points at the way in which every inmate of our planet is also a galactic Voyager. --Joyelle McSweeney
Humans are odd, unpredictable, warlike--and often unintentionally funny. Through the creation of his own Voyager Record--tracks laid down and sent into space in the 1970s to introduce humanity to potential aliens--Anthony Michael Morena both commemorates and satirizes the original in this highly imaginative, poignant, and entertaining book, melding personal and scientific, artistic and philosophical. I'd send this out into the cosmos, no problem.--Tania Hershman
Like its subject, Morena's transmission is a celebration of human achievement full of history, pop culture, jokes, and an intangible soulfulness--enchanting and educational at once.--Publishers Weekly
Morena has produced a smart, hip, and profoundly fascinating testament to both the unfathomable vastness of outer space and the relentless attempts by human imagination to grasp it.--Booklist
Author: Anthony Michael Morena
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 6.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781941628041
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2016
About the Author
Morena, Anthony Michael: - Anthony Michael Morena is a writer from New York who lives in Tel Aviv. In 2015 he received his MA in creative writing from the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Normal School, Ninth Letter, Flapperhouse, and Queen Mob's Tea House. He has also been a guest editor for The Ilanot Review and a regular reader for Gigantic Sequins, a good-looking, biannual, black and white literary arts journal. THE VOYAGER RECORD is his first book.
This title is not returnable
This title is only available via back order
Anthony Michael Morena's THE VOYAGER RECORD is its own charming exploratory device. Combining backstage stories about the creation of the Voyager spacecraft's Golden Record (a touching dream of cramming a musical and visual portrait of our planet onto a single disk) and various imagined encounters with bemused or frightened alien cultures out there, Morena reveals how best intentions can be compromised, and how communication is subject to an infinitude of possible miscues. This is a quietly profound and entertaining book.--Philip Graham
In the 1970s, Voyager left Earth carrying a Golden Record meant to represent human life to alien 'recipients.' At the same time, a generation of children was also launched, into their own lives, each carrying a record of human evolution--its possibilities, leaps of faith, errors, and compromises--in the form of DNA. Anthony Michael Morena's graceful ekphrastic essay THE VOYAGER RECORD brims with the humility and hopefulness of these twin gestures, and points at the way in which every inmate of our planet is also a galactic Voyager. --Joyelle McSweeney
Humans are odd, unpredictable, warlike--and often unintentionally funny. Through the creation of his own Voyager Record--tracks laid down and sent into space in the 1970s to introduce humanity to potential aliens--Anthony Michael Morena both commemorates and satirizes the original in this highly imaginative, poignant, and entertaining book, melding personal and scientific, artistic and philosophical. I'd send this out into the cosmos, no problem.--Tania Hershman
Like its subject, Morena's transmission is a celebration of human achievement full of history, pop culture, jokes, and an intangible soulfulness--enchanting and educational at once.--Publishers Weekly
Morena has produced a smart, hip, and profoundly fascinating testament to both the unfathomable vastness of outer space and the relentless attempts by human imagination to grasp it.--Booklist
Author: Anthony Michael Morena
Publisher: Rose Metal Press
Published: 05/03/2016
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 6.90h x 6.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781941628041
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/18/2016
About the Author
Morena, Anthony Michael: - Anthony Michael Morena is a writer from New York who lives in Tel Aviv. In 2015 he received his MA in creative writing from the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Normal School, Ninth Letter, Flapperhouse, and Queen Mob's Tea House. He has also been a guest editor for The Ilanot Review and a regular reader for Gigantic Sequins, a good-looking, biannual, black and white literary arts journal. THE VOYAGER RECORD is his first book.
This title is not returnable
This title is only available via back order
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
Shipping
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.
Related Products
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Recently Viewed Products
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
Example product title
- $45.17 SGD
- $45.17 SGD
- Unit price
- per
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.