Jetpack Dreams

Sally Forth’s Dude Likely Reading Jetpack Dreams

Or at least that’s what my grandma suspects. This weekend she sent me this recent cartoon (as a jpeg in an email because she is a super cyber-granny) and bemoaned the fact that they hadn’t actually come right out and mentioned the name of the book that he is reading in the panel. Maybe that’s because he isn’t reading the book—that’s possible, of course; there are, apparently, many other books out there. But man, sure looks like it from here.

Posted by admin on January 4, 2009 at 2:28 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

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