Showing results for "Exploration Map by Map" in Literature & Fiction

Roman Windsor's final assignment on a distant colony world should have been routine. Instead, he discovers an impossible object drifting above the frozen wilderness. Before he can investigate, Roman accepts a coveted position on a Wake-Up crew, entering cryosleep for the fifty years needed to prepare the planet for humanity's arrival.

We watch as the cartographer, used to assuming control over a place by mapping it (‘I never get involved / with the muddy affairs of land’), is gradually compelled to recognise a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman’s eternal city of Zion. As...

“Dark Matter pulls light waves into curves, and conceals the true location of everything. It distorts reality.” Astronomer Lucy Rutherford is celebrating the refurbishment of the 100-year-old telescope in the Yarra Valley town of Bowness, Victoria. Her husband, Justin, is running for...