{"product_id":"a-martian-s-passport-chuck-bigelow","title":"A Martian Passport (Charles Bigelow and Jack Stauffacher [maybe])","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf this weird little item, Charles Bigelow commented \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/archive.computerhistory.org\/resources\/access\/text\/2019\/10\/102738267-05-01-acc.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eon page 12 of this\u003c\/a\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eYeah, I learned to set type by hand and print it on a press. I printed a little book of poetry that I had written. It was called “A Martian Passport.” It was about some future in which the early colonists of Mars had a new vision of how society would work. They were short, little anecdotes about them and they had funny names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003eI made up names from anthropology—one of the characters was called Xenon Leonardo and another was called Tharsus Chairmount and they had little wisdoms and they felt that traffic, that congestion had destroyed the essence of Mars and so these were remarks about a revolution that had changed the way things were done. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, Google Books says that Jack Stauffacher was a coauthor, but there are no names or credits in this. Bigelow would have been hanging around The Greenwood Press at this time. WorldCat says John Laursen was a coauthor—and that only Reed College and the University of Oregon have copies. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MMcP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50076134736112,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/7040\/9508\/files\/MartiansPassport.jpg?v=1787768545","url":"https:\/\/ksmallgallery.com\/products\/a-martian-s-passport-chuck-bigelow","provider":"Katherine Small Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}