Jetpack Dreams

Ready for Take Off

It’s only Wednesday, but it’s already been a busy week for all things Jetpack Dream-y. Earlier this week Time magazine gave the book a nice review, noting its “lively prose and voluminous research.” The online hub for GQ and Details magazines, men.style.com, chimed in with an excellent review and our favorite jetpack-related headline so far, if only becuase it references early period REM—they were my favorite band when I was a teenager (this was long before they started to, well, not be so good). Last night, the very awesome Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing posted the trailer on his continually interesting site. And early this morning the fine gentlemen of Boston’s alternative radio station, WFNX, had me on to talk Boba Fett, The Rocketeer and the myriad dangers and thrills of taking to the sky.

Posted by admin on November 7, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Jetpack Dreams explores that most amazing and mysterious of machines.

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"This snappily written, often funny book should attract dreamers of ... all ages."
— Publishers Weekly

"Montandon's entertaining adventures highlight a strange footnote of the space age."
— Booklist

"Reading this book is as fun as zooming through the sky with a rocket on your back. And better yet, you won't break your collarbone doing it."
— A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-it-All and The Year of Living Biblically

"Jetpack Dreams is a delightful and engrossing story of the quest for one of humankind's greatest technological fantasies—to strap on a device and fly like a bird."
— Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine and founder of BoingBoing.net

Innocent When You Dream is the definitive collection of writing about Tom Waits.

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