... dramas, saviour complexes, apocalyptic imaginings, gods, goddesses, heroes and villains. In this extract from her book, Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race, she considers the currently ‘on-trend’ goal of terraforming and...
Space has always been a niche subject, subsumed beneath the overarching reach of ‘aerospace’, sometimes confused with astronomy and often linked to science fiction. But you know that your subject has become prime-time when a professor of ‘religion ...