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🪐 Speculative Futures Reading Group: ‘Planetes Book 1’ by Makoto Yukimura

December 3 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
The cover of 'Planetes Book 1' by Makoto Yukimura, with an illustration of a circular porthole in a spaceship with the Earth below filling the view

The Speculative Futures Reading Group meets on the last Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m.! This month we’re discussing Planetes Book 1 by Makoto Yukimura. (Illustrated by Makoto Yukimura, translated by Yuki Johnson, adapted by Anna Wenger & Brendan Wright.)

Manga comic page with the following dialogue, starting with a man yelling at a woman: NO BREAK! NO RELAXING! I STILL NEED TO LOG 120 EVA HOURS TO EVEN BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY! AND IF I DON'T SQUEEZE IN MORE HOURS, 1 WON'T PASS THE PHYSICAL TESTI NO MATTER HOW GOOD 1 DO ON THE WRITTEN PART! RELAX? ARE YOU INSANE? MY BONES'LL TURN TO GLASS! I GOTTA WORK OUT!! > Woman: DANG, YOU WANNA BE ON THE CREW THAT BAD? YOU'RE DOING ALL THIS TO GET ON THE JUPITER MISSION? > Man: YES!! I DO. AND I WILL BE! > Woman: THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF APPLICANTS FOR THAT MISSION. HACHIMAKI > Man: THEN, I COME BACK TO EARTH GET A GOOD JOB, MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, AND BUY MYSELF A BIG, FAT, POWERFUL SPACESHIP!!! IF I'M PART OF THE CREW THAT BUILDS THE FIRST RESOURCE MINE ON JUPITER, I'LL BE A HERO. On the next page, two people in a tiny spacecraft are leaving a larger ship, and one says "Here we go."

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