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On July 20th, 1969...by Michael Swanwick
tor.com - 7/21/2009
On July 20th, 1969...by Michael Swanwick
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To understand what the moon landing meant to me, you’d have to go back to a dark night in 1957 when I crouched in my attic room with my ear pressed hard against a huge old console radio. The volume was turned down as low as it would go, because I was supposed to be asleep. I was listening to ...
On July 20th, 1969...by Jo Walton
tor.com - 7/21/2009
On July 20th, 1969...by Jo Walton
— tor.com — I was four when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. I remember some things from when I... was younger than that, so I find it hard to understand why I remember absolutely nothing about it. We did have a television, and though it only had one channel, I ... (more) On July 20th, 1969...by Jo Walton

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On July 20th, 1969...by David Weber
tor.com - 7/21/2009
On July 20th, 1969...by David Weber
— tor.com — On July 20, 1969, I was 16 years old, and I had a lot of things on... my mind. I was a chicken farmer for the Future Farmers of America at the time, and I remember I was having problems with possums going after my brood house. Then there was Douglas ... (more) On July 20th, 1969...by David Weber

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On July 20th, 1969...by David Langford
tor.com - 7/21/2009
On July 20th, 1969...by David Langford
— tor.com — Was I there? I must have been, at age 16, in my parents’ (now sadly just my... mother’s) house in Old South Wales. If I shut my eyes I can see those ungainly spacesuited figures making history—but memory has slyly updated the surroundings, so it’s ... (more) On July 20th, 1969...by David Langford

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SF Signal:  SF Authors Remember the Moon Landing

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SF Authors Remember the Moon Landing
SF Signal — ... Gregory Manchess L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Larry Niven Frederick Pohl Kit Reed Rudy Rucker Pamela Sargent Robert J. Sawyer Robert Silverberg Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Jo Walton David Weber ...

Tor.com Remembers the Moon Landing with SF Authors
Grasping for the Wind — ... Harrison Parick Nielsen Hayden Teresa Nielsen Hayden Nancy Kress Geoffrey A. Landis David Langford Gregory Manchess L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Larry Niven Frederick Pohl Kit Reed Rudy Rucker Pamela Sargent Robert J. Sawyer Robert Silverberg Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Jo Walton David Weber ...

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