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PRAISE FOR GENERATION SPACE

"Like twin moons in similar orbits, the stories become inseparable. Kudos to Anna Leahy and Douglas R. Dechow for reminding us of all the reasons we constantly reach for the stars."
—Dinty W. Moore, Between Panic & Desire

"This book is great fun—an entertaining love story by two writers whose prose makes you feel you are in marvelous company, as you move from Leahy's perspective to Dechow's, and the whole thing is full of what I like to call knowledge-bearing sentences: the story of our involvement and fascination with space, and space travel, through their eyes, and in light of their love of each other. A sweet ride all the way."
—Richard Bausch, author of Before, During, After and Something Is Out There

"Weaving together personal narratives while telling a broader cultural story, Anna Leahy and Doug Dechow have written a book that is as delightful as it is instructive. Exploring linguistic subtleties and technological details, ranging across scientific anecdotes and poetic insights, Generation Space: A Love Story is truly an adventure, and a discovery."
—Christopher Schaberg, author of The End of Airports

"Anna Leahy and Douglas Dechow capture the unique mixture of nostalgia, hope, and derring-do that surrounds humanity’s successful attempt to puncture the veil of space. Generation Space is a book that will resonate with the children of that Apollo era and one that asks the urgent question that few seem wiling to answer in the 21st century: where do we go from here?"
—Tom Zoellner, author of Train

PRESS

“Weird Love: The Composed Soul,” Barrelouse

“How Museums Fought for the Retired Space Shuttles”, The Atlantic

“How Cubs' Quest For World Series Is Like Sending Man To Mars,” The Post Game

“On Space and Pop Culture,” Valerie Takahama

WGN MIDDAY FIX 

Anna Leahy and Doug Dechow Talk 'Generation Space: A Love Story' on WCIU, You & Me

Knox College Grads Fall in Love Over the Space Program on WGIL

This Week In Books, Kelly Lynn Thomas for The Rumpus

“How Carrie Fisher's Space Adventures Helped Define My Generation,” Motto

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Anna Leahy and Douglas R. Dechow work and teach at Chapman University in Orange, California. They have written the Lofty Ambitions blog together since 2010.

Anna’s first book, Constituents of Matter (Kent State University Press, 2007) won the Wick Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbook, Sharp Miracles (Blue Lyra Press, 2016), and her nonfiction book Tumor is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2017. For more news and updates, check out her website.

Doug is the co-author of SQEAK: A Quick Trip to Objectland (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001) and Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (Springer, 2015). For more news and updates, check out his website, or find him online @dougdechow