What happens when you revisit the woefully misremembered science fiction of your youth? Joe Howley (Latin teacher) and
Johannah King-Slutzky
(internet wraith/underachiever) asked adults to re-read their genre favorites from childhood. For the first in our Time Quartet series, we talked to bona fide adult
Kate Franklin
, an archaeologist who for the past seven years has worked for the Medieval Archaeology of the South Caucasus at the Oriental Institute (whew!) studying Medieval Armenia.
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INT. THE MURRY'S home. NIGHT. MRS WHATSIT: hello is anybody home MRS. MURRY: excuse me? MRS WHATSIT: i'm coming in for sandwiches and to take some of your sheets also your children, i will be taking them MRS. MURRY: you're what? MRS WHATSIT: oh by the way your husband is in space and your science is terrible just terrible you have barely any science and your husband is trapped in space i'll just take these…