astrophe n the feeling of being stuck on Earth.
Us geeks are supposed to love space, right? Science Fiction? The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Star Trek/Star Wars/Lost in Space? The desire to travel throughout the universe?
I know I wanted to get off this planet at some point. I’m sure I hoped there would be a way to leave the Earth, hopefully as smoothly as they do in Red Thunder. I don’t see that coming anytime soon: no anti-gravity, no teleporters, no space elevators. Just heavy thrust rockets.
At this point in my life, I’m not interested. Even when we ran the DBA in Space campaign, that wasn’t something I’d have chosen to do.
I don’t have any astrophe these days.
From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows