Today marks the 48th anniversary of humankind landing on the moon… and Tor.com’s 9th birthday!
To celebrate, we’re looking back at our Moon Landing Day series—we invited authors, artists, critics, and fans in the science fiction community to share with us what they were doing on July 20, 1969, and how it informed their relationship with science fiction. Check out personal remembrances from C.J. Cherryh, Larry Niven, Frederik Pohl, Jo Walton, and more!
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I remember the first moon landing. We were visiting my grandparents and my little brother and I watched on an old black and white set which my grandmother turned off because she thought it was time for little children to be in bed,but we turned it right back on.
I remember it too, watching on a little black and white set, super late at night, way past bedtime!
I just asked the local public radio station to play this on the morning show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXteSV8rBwY
(“Hope Eyrie,” by Leslie Fish, performed by Julia Ecklar.)
I was eleven, and SO psyched for the moon landing. Hard to believe that the can-do optimism of that time is so far behind us…