I've just started "Ignition! - An informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants" by John D. Clark.
To quote from the Preface (by Isaac Asimov)
Now its clear that anyone working with rocket fuels is outstandingly mad. I don't mean garden-variety crazy or merely raving lunatic. I mean record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity.

John D. Clark survived into retirement in a field where many didn't... and his book sort of tells the story of these chemicals which want to explode, poison, burn, or just simply kill you. And it's an easy read!!!!!

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I've just started "Ignition! - An informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants" by John D. Clark.
To quote from the Preface (by Isaac Asimov)
Now its clear that anyone working with rocket fuels is outstandingly mad. I don't mean garden-variety crazy or merely raving lunatic. I mean record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity.

John D. Clark survived into retirement in a field where many didn't... and his book sort of tells the story of these chemicals which want to explode, poison, burn, or just simply kill you. And it's an easy read!!!!!

+1

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

With all this spring cleaning business going on here I've been a bit slow on the reading bit, but last night I finally finished Raymond E. Feist's "Riftwar Saga" series and started on his next series, The Empire Trilogy.

Cheers.

A novel: "The Alice Network", by Kate Quinn. 1915, 1947 spy thriller.

Robin (biography of Robin Williams) by Dave Itzkoff

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~Sue~

"If Then," Jill Lepore. How the Simulmatics Corp. invented the future.

I'm up to Raymond E. Feist's 3rd book in his Serpentwar Saga series now.

Cheers.

"The Ends of the World', by Peter Brannen.

Volcanic apocalypses, lethal oceans, and our quest to understand Earth's past mass extinctions.

I finally finished my Raymond E. Feist books and now I've started on Janny Wurt's starting with "Stormwarden" from her "Cycle of Fire" series.

Cheers.

"The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)", by Katie Mack.

Origin of Species 1st Ed.
Will read 5th later.

Yep

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

An interesting exercise is to read the first edition alongside a later one and spot the differences in content as opposed to those in grammar - many years ago I did this helping a friend who was studying the development of language used in scientific publications - each member of the class was given a well known book that had first been published, then revised over at least fifty years.... A good way to wreck a few wet nights :-(

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

"When Brains Dream", by Antonio Zadra, & Robert Stickgold. Exploring the science & mystery of sleep.

"Caste", by Isabel Wilkerson. An eye-opener.

"Einstein's Fridge", by Paul Sen. How the difference between hot and cold explains the universe.

"Basics Of Remote Cellular Access"

Or how to avoid overpriced unreliable century-old telegraph antique slow wet bell wires from the UK-wide defacto gouging monopoly... Including their unwanted unsightly old and new toxic poles.


Keep searchin',
Martin

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See new freedom: Mageia Linux
Take a look for yourself: Linux Format
The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3)

Well I finally got to finish my Janny Wurt's collection of books (though I still have a couple to get) so I'm now starting on Terry Brooks' Shannara series.

Cheers.

"The Splendid and the Vial", by Erik Larson. Winston Churchill, and the Blitz.

"The Code Breaker", Walter Isaacson. Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race.

"Islands of Abandonment", by Cal Flyn. Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape.