I grew up in a home where if the book was on a bookshelf then I could read it, regardless of my age and the alleged reading age of the book. Given my parent’s taste in books this meant I grew up with Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, and many other classic SF authors. What this meant was that on days off school feeling ill I’d curl up under a blanket with something like an old “New Writings in SF” and that meant I was introduced […]
Fixing space with any available tool
The Unorthodox Engineers by Colin Kapp