Lawn Chair ... Thanks to If Wishes Were Wings
I just finished reading The Whole Wide World by Paul McAuley. A near future police procedural set in the UK and then moving to Cuba. All the back cover blurbs agree that it represents an "all too plausible future", but a glance at the paper will tell you that both England and the US are doing a pretty good job of Orwellian surveillance right now. The idea of "backdoor access" for certain important people is largely codified into current law. That aside, I hit the web to find out more about him and found out that he's a space flight buff. ( WE done dropped the ball, in both of our opinions. ) He has a great blog and some interesting links.
- His blog: Earth and other unlikely planets
- Russian Space Program
- Pavel Klushantsev's 1957 film, Road to the Stars
