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.
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
Richard Fortey, 2001, ISBN 978-0375706219
Under the Dragon’s Tail, by Maureen Jennings, 1998, McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-9597-9
Dead Lies Dreaming, © 2020 by Charles Stross, ISBN 978-1-250-26702-1, A Tordotcom Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates.
I read JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit for the first time since at least Junior High, or maybe even before.
I finally read the copy of The Mueller Report Illustrated that someone gave me a while back. I think this is just the obstruction of justice investigation. I was dreading the bad memories it would inevitably dredge up.
A long time ago a friend of mine had the double-LP progressive rock album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. I dredged up a bootleg on youtube and listened to it again.
