Tom

This is a book about hang gliding. But more importantly, it is about living life to the fullest. It contains a wealth of information about flying and about hang glider launch sites, about observing weather, and about risk taking. Learning to fly a hang glider in the mountains of Southern Oregon, he stepped into a new and thrilling world with no instincts to help his survival. If you have ever looked up at the birds and wondered what it would be like to fly, this is a must-listen audiobook. Come along for a wild ride into the vastest, little explored wilderness, just above the ground.

Centuries from now, the basic right to expand human intelligence beyond its natural limits has become a war-worthy cause for the Demarchists and Conjoiners. Only vast lighthugger starships bind these squabbling colonies together, manned by the panicky and paranoid Ultras. And the hyperpigs just try to keep their heads down. The rich get richer. And everyone tries not to think about the worrying number of extinct alien civilizations turning up on the outer reaches of settled space...because who's to say that humanity won't be next?