Micah Kennedy’s Reviews > On Glorious Wings: The Best Flying Stories of the Century > Status Update

“Only in fiction can the true reality of our humanity, our mortality, be thoroughly explored. Only in fiction can we examine the vast gulf that usually separates perception and reality. Only in fiction can we marvel at the depth and breadth of the chasm between the world as it is and the world as we wish it to be.”

It’s only the introduction! I was expecting aerial warfare, not philosophical validation 🥹