Review_Atmosphæra Incognita

<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43799943-atmosph-ra-incognita" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Atmosphæra Incognita" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1549535855m/43799943.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43799943-atmosph-ra-incognita">Atmosphæra Incognita</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/545.Neal_Stephenson">Neal Stephenson</a><br/>
My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2806072534">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
The geniuses of our era, in my opinion, are the late Stephen Hawking, John Connolly, and Neal Stephenson. I never miss anything Mr. Stephenson pens, even though sometimes I have to really stretch my brain to comprehend, because isn't that the point of science fiction? Of any literature? To stretch us, mold us, trigger us to evolve into our better selves?<br /><br />In his very new novella Atmosphæra Incognita, a self-made, crusty, often irritable, and very bullishly determined billionaire decides to build a Tower: twenty kilometers in height, it will reach into that elusive junction of Earth's atmosphere with outer space. Why? Why do modern humans construct skyscrapers? Why the Tower of Babel? Why the Hanging Gardens of Bablyon? Perhaps here it is that unconscious desire of humankind to "knock on heaven's door," to "reach the stars," "ad astra per aspera." Mankind always reaching above himself: Icarus, Prometheus, billionaire Carl.
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