When I was a kid , I wa s partial to sto ries abo u t otherworlds and interpl anet ary travel. I used to imagine that Icould just gaze off int o sp ace and be whisk ed to anotherplan et, much like John Carter in Edgar Rice Bur roughs 'SMar s series. I 'd like to tell you that I was intere sted inout er space or that the star s fascinated me or that I wascur ious about the sha pe a nd nature of the uni verse. Factof the matter was I just wanted to get out of t own . Wantedto get as far away from where I was as I could . At fifteen,Plut o looked good. Tiny, cold , lonely. As far from the sunas you coul d get.
I thought this as something important to highlight because as kids we think that we can go past the moon and back but as we get older we see that we can't go that far in reality but we can always imagine them, hence where the stories come in.