Book Excerpt for the Day

    “If they can work out the kinks, it could revolutionize space travel.”

    “’Work out the kinks’?” Jared said.  “I’m about to use this thing.  Kinks are bad.”

    “The kink is that the drive is touchy about the mass of the object it’s attached to,” Wilson said.  “Too much mass creates too much of a local warp on the time-space.  Makes the Skip Drive do weird things.”

    “Like what?” Jared asked.

    “Like explode,” Wilson said.

    “That’s not encouraging,” Jared said.

    “Well, explode is not quite the accurate word,” Wilson said.  “The physics for what really goes on are much weirder, I assure you.”

    “You can stop now,” Jared said.

    (from The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi)

     9½*/10.  The full review is here.

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