Vanna Bonta

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Vanna Bonta is a novelist, poet and actress who continues her family’s tradition of literature and the arts. She is best known as the author of Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (Meridian House 1996), the story of an amnesiac girl with no navel, and award-winning collections of poetry as well as for her cameo role as Zed's queen in the fantasy movie The Beastmaster. She is also the inventor of the 2suit.

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  • Infinity is a territory toward which the inherent human impetus of conquest can be productively directed. Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
    • "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society" essay, European Space Agency (2005)
  • What goes up can continue.
    • Lyric from the song "What Goes Up"
  • Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.
    • Quoted during a panel discussion at the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2006 conference
  • I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality. When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.
    • From the essay "Space: What love's got to do with it" (2004)
  • Love consults itself.
    • From the essay, "Space: What love's got to do with it" (2004)
  • I was really gobsmacked.
    • Comment by Bonta on her blog upon being informed that a spaceship entered in the 2007 NASA Lunar Lander Challenge had been named Lauryad after the spaceship in her book Flight
  • I'm in love with the whole world.
    • Quoted at age 13 by the Columbia Gazette
  • Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
    • Holiday advice from Bonta, as quoted on Waleg Celebrity News Archive
  • The genre is broad and includes Life.
    • Bonta describing the genre Quantum Fiction, which she coined with her book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel.
  • Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
    • Bonta recalling being reprimanded as a child, as quoted on the Waleg Celebrity News Archive
  • When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.
    • "Space: What love's got to do with it" The Space Review (2004)
  • Sex in space is more than a Big Bang.
    • Femail Magazine June 2008 [1]
  • I consider myself more exportant than important.
    • Shades of the World, by Vanna Bonta; quoted in American Chronicle [2]


[edit] Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

  • She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.
  • Popularity is not an indication of quality.
  • People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
  • Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. ... I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile.
    • "Stella's Earrings
  • Love is the eternal first breath.
    • "Home"
  • Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.
    • "Inversion"
  • Have you, with your work, made anyone glow? Erupted their sorrow? Evicted their woe? Have you been anyone's consolation through a night? Have you evoked unrehearsed emotion? Chiseled a crack in someone's encasement and watched them escape? Followed the muses wherever they led? Kept on creating when left for dead? Do not bother me with punctuation until you have earned your degree.
    • "To Some Critics"


[edit] FLIGHT: a quantum fiction novel (1996)

  • Which came first — the observer or the particle?
    • Preface
  • Once, before Time...
    • Prologue
  • Our trust exchanged dependency.
    • Ch. 1
  • Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense.
    • Ch. 15
  • I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.
    • Ch. 17
  • Life kissed her however it could.
    • Ch. 22
  • Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.
    • Ch. 23
  • Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial."
    • Ch. 28
  • Viewers of television, for instance, aren't aware of their own physical vulnerabilities. They get used, manipulated by images of depersonalized sex.
    • Ch. 32
  • "Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"
    • Ch. 32
  • On Earth it was day in some places, night in others.
    • Ch. 44
  • It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true.
    • Ch. 48


[edit] The Universe - Sex in Space (History Channel) (2008)

  • Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'[3]
  • The 2suit is a utilitarian garment that functions by itself as a flight suit, and can unzip or attach with velcro and attach to a partner's suit with very lighwegiht fabric inside that can expand.
  • One impression I had was how zero zero gravity is.
  • We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.
  • To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.


[edit] Sex in Space, Laura Woodmansee (Apogee Books), Vanna Bonta interview (2006)

  • Having personally kissed in zero gravity, I was initially amazed by the unexpected lack of attraction, from the sheer perspective of the mass magnetism.
    • p. 29
  • As our faces and bodies drew nearer, gravity was not helping us at all. It took minor struggle to come together, and we had to hold on in an effort to keep our lips aligned.
    • p. 29
  • On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.
    • p. 31
  • Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.
    • p. 31
  • Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.
    • p. 75
  • Space settlements would also contain biospheres replicating Earth conditions and atmosphere."
    • p. 75
  • If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
    • p. 75
  • It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.
    • p. 76
  • It’s vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity’s continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.
    • Ch. 5
  • Human migration beyond Earth is our destiny, not as in something preordained, but in the sense of it being inevitable and necessary. The lot of humanity seems to be that of expanding consciousness into new territory.
  • People have been making love and having sex in space over the thousands of years that our ancestors lived and traveled in small hunting-and-gathering bands. Earth is in Space.
    • p. 90
  • Sex in space is not about going somewhere else to have sex; it's ultimately about expanding beyond our immediate neighborhood, into a Universe to which we belong.


[edit] References

  1. ↑ Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space
  2. ↑ Vanna Bonta Interview, Inventor's Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful May 02, 2009
  3. ↑ The Universe: Sex in Space Marks New Era For Mankind? Dec. 1, 2008

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