books

Ancient Sea Reptiles
Darren Naish
Smithsonian Book, 2023
ISBN 9781588347275

Appears to have originally been published in UK by Natural History Museum, London.

An investigation into the origins of the famous fortune cookie saying All progress occurs because people dare to be different led me to a dead end, and I missed these important points.

I got a fortune cookie slip of paper (twice!) that read:

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

I’ve been watching Agatha Christie’s Poirot on the “BritBox” streaming service. I found The Mystery of the Blue Train episode (Series 10, episode 1) both intriguing and puzzling.

So, I read the book, which my lovely wife gave me for Christmas!

A Canticle for Leibowitz is just a great book, one of a kind.

I’ve read Men, Martians and Machines, and another Ace Double with Six Worlds Yonder and The Space Willies. many times since I was a child. The unifying theme here is: written by English sci fi humorist Eric Frank Russell.

Conquest of the Moon (Viking Press, 1953, Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Fred Whipple) describes a lunar expedition that could be accomplished with the technology of 1950. It’s the second of three books that explore the implications of Project Mars.

A few weeks ago, I visited the local King Soopers (Kroger’s brand name along the Colorado Front Range). There was a guy with a display of books by the customer service desk.

Some years ago, I read Vernor Vinge’s 1992 space opera, A Fire Upon the Deep. It’s a good read, and it has some interesting ideas.

I read American Steam Locomotives, Design and Development, 1880-1960, William L. Withuhn, 2019, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-03933-0, 451 pages.