[ExI] The Man Who Wanted Stars (Dan McLaughlin, 1965)

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Thu Jan 10 00:14:04 UTC 2008


At 05:10 PM 1/9/2008 -0600, Bryan quoted:

>Even if Joe Webber had to build the rockets with his
>own bare hands. Even if he had to snatch men off the streets, and seal
>them in the rockets, and shoot them off at the stars. The high, cold
>stars.

Poor Joe Weber. First his gravity detectors get laughed at, then he 
makes the silly error of shooting his spacemen at the cold stars 
instead of the bright hot ones. Oh well. It's been a long, strange trip.





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