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Superfried Ltd Ltd itibaren Dimirimunda, Odisha 762016, Hindistan

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Science fiction story with a great Borges-like reverse ending. Not Dick's best, but does show what an over-abundance of ideas the man had: there are enough to fill about 10 novels here. Really prolific writer and everything I've read so far has been good.

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What goes around...comes around. I'm screwed now.

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This is a fantastic book. Wolfe approaches the topic with humor, tons of research, and even a hint of mockery. It's a funny combination, but also thoroughly fascinating. Throughout, he's always slyly asking 'What makes a hero'. From the beginning, it's fairly clear that Wolfe is more enthralled with the pilots than the astronauts. They're both risking death for country, but it's abundantly clear that the astronauts don't really DO anything. The pilots have the controls and survive by way of their own grit and metal. The astronauts of Mercury essentially sit inside a bullet and go for a ride. By the end of Mercury, they've proved that skill does, in fact, prove necessary for future space flights, but Wolfe remains wistful about the glory days of envelope pushing test pilots. He starts and ends his book on the legendary shoulders of Yeager, and seems to say that, though the world may have moved on, no amount of shifting perceptions can change the existence of true heroes. Also interesting is his point about singular combat. Since going to war with the ruskies was liable to spark off nuclear winter, both countries had to find ways to let off the steam in less explosive fashion. The space race was a competition and the astronauts were America's gladiators. It's an interesting premise that had never occurred to me. If you can't send the nukes, you have to find other ways to beat those damn reds, right? It makes me understand why things like the Miracle on Ice from the 80 Olympic games were such a big deal. It also explains why the Mercury seven were so canonized in the public eye. Kids across the country were being told by their parents that they could grow up to be astronauts...or president. These days, president is the more common idiom. Three decades of driving dilapidated shuttles has taken nearly all of the sheen off of astronauts, but Wolfe's portrayal of the glory days proves a powerful reminder of their place in history.