ATD paperback cover

[JD]

Welp, this makes me glad I picked up the paperback because I obviously need
to start a second read real soon! :P

On 11/6/07, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>   JD sez:
>  See, I just picked up a copy of the paperback today... and my response
> was... WTF does this have to do with AtD?
>
> p.1070, Kit helping Renzo adapt a plane:
>
>  "A very steep dive, not like when you go down in a spin, here you'd be *controlling
> it all the way*—release the bomb as close to target as you can get, then
> pull up sharply again to get out of the way of the explosion..."
>
>
> ...They were soon going so fast that something happened to time, and maybe
> they'd slipped for a short interval into the Future, the Future known to
> Italian Futurists, with events superimposed on one another, and geometry
> straining irrationally away in all directions including a couple of extra
> dimensions as they continued hellward, a Hell that could never contain Kit's
> abducted young wife, to which he could never go to rescue her, which was
> actually Hell-of-the-future, taken on into its functional equations,
> stripped and fire-blasted of everything emotional or accidental. . . .
>
> And then Renzo had pulled them up in a shuddering prop-to-tail assault on airframe
> integrity, and they were sailing above the river as if it was all just a
> Sunday spin.
>
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