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“A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men,” Mr. Wonka said.”
― Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
― Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
“The principal centers for these studies have been the U.S. Naval Medical Center at Pensacola, Florida, and the Soviet space program’s ORBIT centrifuge facility in the U.S.S.R.”
― The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
― The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
“Do not mourn me, friends I fall as a shooting star Into the next life”
― Old Man's War
― Old Man's War
“We grow avocados and papayas in our own garden and never need to use insecticide sprays. Of course we like being able to get a suntan without ever being bitten by a mosquito. To be free of those pests, it's worth it to go through the inspections before getting aboard the shuttle from Earth.”
― The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
― The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
― The Road
― The Road
Jordan’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jordan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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