Moving nimbly from the moon to Mars, from the depths of the Atlantic to a nuclear reactor, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair artfully traces a history of amazing mechanical rovers through the Cold War, the Chernobyl disaster, the 9/11 attack, and his own upbringing near NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Instigated by the discovery of old photos after a devastating wildfire, Space Rover clears an astutely unpredictable and philosophical path from Sinclairs boyhood in Southern California through a rich cultural history of mechanical wanderers. Space Rover is an auspicious call for and at times, a solemn caution against wandering. What a thought-provoking exploration of the purposeful meandering that humans and their mechanized, roving proxies do! * Anna Leahy, Professor of English and Director of MFA in Creative Writing, Chapman University, USA, and author of Tumor (Bloomsbury, 2017) * This is a book we didnt know we needed. As meandering and revelatory as its subject, Stewart Lawrence Sinclairs Space Rover takes us on a trip through space and time thats full of universal and personal discovery. Rovers are our mechanical avatars and assistants in hostile environments, but they are also, in their own way, our friends and family. * Fred Scharmen, Program Director and Associate Professor of Architecture, Morgan State University, USA *
