Sunday, February 28, 2016

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “Vogel,” she radioed.  “I need you to come back in and make a bomb.”

    “Um. Again, please, Commander?” Vogel replied.

    “A bomb,” Lewis confirmed.  “You’re a chemist.  Can you make a bomb out of stuff on board?”

    “Ja,” Vogel said.  “We have flammables and pure oxygen.”

    “Sounds good,” Lewis said.

    “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft,” Vogel pointd out.

    “So make it small.”


    (from The Martian by Andy Weir)

    8½*/10.  The complete review is here.
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