Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This trilogy.
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And the reason uh I'm so drawn to it is because what he does very purposefully is to use the settlement of Mars as a recasting of the American West in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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He does it very purposefully.
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It's visible on all kinds of levels, and just to make sure you don't miss it, his primary
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primary character in Red Mars is named John Boone.
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And John Boone is a he's the first person who first uh human who has ever set foot on Mars and then goes back fifteen years later with one hundred people who comprise the so-called first hundred, who are all scientists, literary figures, artists, philosophers, and what
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uh Kim Stanley Robinson does with this trilogy because the three books, Red Mars, Blue Mars, and Green Mars, cover about seventy-five years of time.
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And when these people arrive, most of them are in their fifties.
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Is he has in Red Mars science invent what is called the treatment.
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And it is a way to go into your body and reset your genetics so all the mistakes that your body has made as it has aged are eliminated.
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And these people end up living 170, 180, 190 years.
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Now they become extremely old.
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old physically, but they are completely healthy for all those years.
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And what he does with this book that really I think uh uh delights me is he has John Boone, Lewis and Clark like
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Go out in a rover and explore the Martian landscape and sort of take notes like a naturalist would, like Meriwether Lewis did on the Lewis and Clark expedition, about what the landscape looks like and and what Mars could be if we decide to terraform it and turn it into, in effect, what we have done to the American West.
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So that's my final choice and I'm sticking with it.
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Who gets to be a native resident of any place is always up for debate.
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But for the past half century, two movements, bioregionalism and rewilding, have offered a new possibility.
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I'm Dan Flores, and this is the American West.
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becoming natives of place in the American West.
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