Jetpack Dreams

Sky Captain & the World of Today

I’ve joined the ever expanding bloggy universe over at the Huffington Post—my first item is about that Swiss dude who flew over the English Channel last week. Well done, Yves Rossy!

Posted by admin on September 26, 2008 at 5:30 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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