Hapi’s Reviews > Orbital > Status Update

A tinned man in a tin can. Four inches of titanium away from death. Not just death, obliterated non-existence.

"So strenuously unrobotic is the astronaut's heart that it leaves the earth's atmosphere and it presses out — gravity stops pressing in and the counterweight of the heart starts pressing out, as if suddenly aware it is part of an animal, alive and feeling. An animal that does not just bear witness, but loves what it witnesses."