R is for Rocket

On Saturday, the Brackett Rocket, a piece of playground equipment repurposed as a sculpture, will be unveiled. If you’re in the Longfellow/Seward area, swing on by; Saturday, Oct. 6 - 3-5 p.m. Brackett Park, 28th St. E & 36th Ave. S, Minneapolis.

Google gets into the Banned Books Week spirit with a list of classics that have been challenged. There are no straight-up science fiction books in this brief list to go with the rocket picture, but there are a handful in adjoining galaxies: “1984″, “Slaughterhouse Five”, “Brave New World”, and “Cat’s Cradle” are among the possible futures (and troubling presents) that have drawn the censors’ attention.