Our Own Devices

Description

Mid-century retro speculative fiction. Nine new stories and three essays on our obsession and entanglement with technology, based on historical fact, in the Zeitgeist of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. With 31 archival pictures. Gilles Messier was born in Winnipeg in 1989. As an aerospace engineer, his interests concern the use and misuse of technology in war, nuclear energy and space exploration.