TC Boyle: The Terranauts

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

TC Boyle's The Terranauts centers around eight earth explorers who lock themselves up in E2, a biodome created to mimic earth and test the viability of a self-sustained environment. But what happens between the eight terranauts and their mission control has a bigger impact on sustainability than science had counted on.

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0:58.1	I'm Michael Silverblatt and this here is bookworm.
1:02.0	Today we're talking to T.C. Boyle.
1:05.1	He's written a new novel called The Terranauts.
1:09.0	Let's see what a Terranaut is, first of all.
1:12.4	Well, hello, Michael. What I'm doing is I am writing about my ecological themes yet again,
1:18.2	and I am reviving the experiment in the Arizona desert from 91 through 93 called the Biosphere 2,
1:25.5	in which 3,800 species of plants and animals were enclosed with
1:30.9	four men and four women for two years to see if we could create a self-sustaining environment
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