The New Horizons mission has been on my mind recently, in part because of my post last week on Ultima Thule, but also because I just started reading Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto by Alan Stern and David Grinspoon.
New Horizons has already visited the most distant “planet” in the Solar System (Pluto was still considered a planet when New Horizons launched), and now it’s going to explore an object even more distant than that. And after that? Onwards to interstellar space, just like Voyager I and Voyager II, to continue exploring the universe for us.
But as I said, all this has got me thinking about travel and exploration and discovery, and also strangely (or perhaps not so strangely) about J.R.R. Tolkien. So today I’d like to share a piece of Tolkien’s poetry, something that fit nicely into The Lord of the Rings but also fits nicely (I think) into the ongoing saga of the New Horizons mission.
Planet Pailly 
Love this. I feel like Tolkien would too.
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I think so too.
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Have you read my partner’s blog zerothly.wordpress.com? He’s really into SF
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Thanks, looks like a really cool blog! I’ll check it out in more detail later.
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He’s just had a book published by GAILE called Replicas. It was nominated for a Hugo!
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Oh wow, that’s really impressive!
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Here it is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Replicas-Galactic-Association-Intelligent-life/dp/1973482177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528223929&sr=8-1&keywords=Replicas+Amanda+Ure
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Hi there…I couldn’t find a direct contact anywhere, but I was wondering if you ever sold prints of some of your art? My coworker is a PI on New Horizons and I think she would love this!
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Wow, that’s awesome! Unfortunately I don’t have a store set up. And even if I did, there might be a copyright issue with me trying to make money off of this particular piece, since I’m quoting extensively from a copyrighted poem.
But I am a huge fan of New Horizons, and it would please me to no end to know that people involved in the mission have seen some of my work!
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