Article: Martha E. Rogers: an ecliptic experience.(In memoriam)

We all have special memories and thoughts associated with Martha E. Rogers. When I think of her, I think of eclipses. An eclipse is a time when some object comes between us and a familiar sight, blocking familiar comfortable views and inevitably changing our reality. I recently read a book by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg called Nightfall, in which a planet with six suns endures a total eclipse and is plunged into total darkness--an event that only occurs on this planet every 2050 years. During the eclipse the residents see the sky filled with stars, and this sight is so incongruent with their reality that most go insane; the remainder are forever changed.

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