Just want to thank the latest to add Target Centermass to his blogroll:
I’m just guessing, but I suspect John at TexasBestGrok might be a fan of Robert A. Heinlein, one of the greats of science fiction. TBG is worth the regular look, if only for the Heinlein Quote of the Month, the weekly aircraft cheesecake post (check out the Blohm und Voss BV 141; I’d never seen it), and especially the regularly-featured Sci-Fi Babe Poll.
TBG has his links classified by Heinlein-related titles and Target Centermass is now listed under the “The Green Hills of Earth.” As a tribute to that, I send back this:
The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
All hands! Stand by! Free falling!
And the lights below us fade.
Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps the race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet —
We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.
Thanks for the link, sir.
As always, if you’ve linked or blogrolled Target Centermass and I haven’t found you, please send an email or post a comment. No good deed should go unrewarded.
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Glad to have you on the blogroll, and thanks for the appropriate poetry; The Green Hills of Earth is one of my favorite short story collections. I read a lot of RAH when I was much younger (about 20 years ago) and I’ve been working my way back through his catalog over the last couple of years.