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Astronomy cast episode 658 Space Exploration Horror Stories. Welcome to Astronomy cast

episode 658 Space Exploration Horror Stories.

It's new book day. New for you. Yes, I have a book coming out and my publishers

amused me to no end in a very sick and sad and twisted way because they're like,

hey, we're starting to see all the influencers pictures out there of your book.

And I don't have a copy of my book to show you right now because they only sent copies to influencers.

And I'm not enough of an influencer to get a copy of my book of my own book.

Yeah, yes. So it's available for pre-order. Yeah, the publisher will come to you. We did this

as well and they're like, where do you want to send these books? And so I gave a big list of all the

people who I thought could help amplify the message. But in many cases, they're getting copies of

the book in their hands before you get a copy of your own book. They're like, thanks for sending

me the new book, Fraser. I'm like, you should tell me what it's like because I don't know.

All I've seen are the pre-president. Well, congratulations. What is the book?

It's called The Moon. Great title. It's a kids book. So we kept everything super simple.

It looks at how we see the moon, what we see about the moon, the history of exploring the moon,

and how today's kids are really going to be tomorrow's citizens of whatever lunar bases we end up

building. So we're basically giving little kids heads up on how big, hopefully they will dream

and just tell them to dream as big as they can. And here's some scientific information to dream with.

Wow. Congratulations. Awesome work. Now we're recording this episode on Halloween. So how could we

resist but to take advantage of this opportunity? I mean, space is already terrifying enough, you know,

with the vast endless emptiness, the incomprehensible mysteries and the uncaring coldness. But here are

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