Crown Publishers
1990
ISBN: 0517574039
English
582 pages
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This collection of machine dreams--flights of fact and fancy from Leonardo da Vinci's "great bird" to William Faulkner's "lowing monoplane"--leave one, as H.G. Wells put it, "like a child in wonderland." This unique anthology "nibbles the outline of the earth," in the words of St. Exupery, and is fodder for all who dare. Lindbergh, Lowell, Byrd, and Earhart are the dreamers; Michener, Heller, and Deighton are the recorders; Armstrong, Glenn, Scott, and McAuliffe are the visionaries. And as Yeager executes a "zero-g roll with a full load of rocket fuel," Poe marvels, "Who shall say that anything is impossible hereafter?" And when at last the "airplane is quiet," we remain, in the words of Bach, "for a moment, still a stranger to the ground."

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