"Pearson, Martin - So You Want To Be A Space Flier" - читать интересную книгу автора (Pearson Martin)

see on Mars is a small, dusty space-port out in the desert. Everyone has read
about that.
And you don't have adventures. If you did, no one would ever know because you
couldn't possibly live to return and tell about it. Space ships whose allotted
course is changed, for any reason at all, just never return.
So when I read that people, a hundred years or so back, around the '30s and '40s
of last century, thought space-fliers would be great heroic guys and wished they
could become spacemen, I have to laugh. Only not because I think it's funny. It
isn't. No wonder they called these people romantics; they just didn't know any
better. I wish I could find me one of the time machines they have in some of
their stories, so I could let them in on the inside dope.
So you want to be a space-flier, eh? You're welcome to it, buddy; as for me, I
know when I've had enough.