Five years and five days ago, for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, I published a short memoir of my time working at NASA on the Apollo program, titled "When We Landed on the Moon".
It's not the catchiest title, but it is much snazzier than the more descriptive title "How I Worked at a Desk at NASA During Apollo Writing Fortran Code and Entering Lots of Data on Punch Cards and Poring over Piles of Computer Printout".
It should have said "terminate a pregnancy". I couldn't edit it to correct it, so I added a comment to that effect.
QT: https://mastodon.nu/@Gurre/112610082420818010
That should be "to terminate a pregnancy".
I'd edit that toot if I could.
QT: https://qoto.org/@DavidDvorkin/112609774660685186
My latest, a thriller, is now out in ebook on Amazon and can be read free via Kindle Unlimited. Print editions will be out on January 24.
Here's the link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSF8N7VK
Kids today with their school cancellations because of snow and cold. I tell ya. Why, why I was a lad in high school in northern Indiana, around 65 years ago, we'd get storms with layers of snow and ice and snow and ice and... (lake effect, perhaps), and school would be cancelled, and adults would snarl that we were wimps, why, in their day etc.
I finally finished the thriller novel I've been trying to finish for... It seems forever. Done before the end of the year! Now it's on my wife's computer for her excellent proofreading, after which I'll send off for the proof copy.
At that point, I'll be happy to send anyone who wants one (for possible review, for reading, or just out of curiosity) a PDF of the uncorrected proof. Let me know by DM if you want one. If you prefer email, contact me at david@dvorkin.com I'll put you on a list for when it's available.
The book has telepathy, criminals, violence, terrible secrets, and an evil cabal. No sex, but only because it didn't really belong there. It's 70,000 words and is, I hope, a quick, entertaining read.
Here's the cover:
https://i.imgur.com/dApFMmC.jpg
Writer, former software developer, tech writer, aerospace engineer (Apollo, Viking Mars lander). Atheist and anti-theist; I try not to go on too much about that and frequetnly fail. Mostly fairly leftwing except on certain subjects; ditto about going on too much about it. Come to think of it, that bit about going on too much about stuff applies to all of the above.