adam_mcphee 's review for:

Orbiter by Warren Ellis
2.0

An elegy for the space shuttle program, wrapped in the weird skin of a Warren Ellis comic.

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(Aliens attach an alcubierre drive to a missing shuttle and also add an organic layer of skin to eat the excess radiation, which struck me as implausible because wasn't there something about an alcubierre drive needing to radiate approximately the amount of energy found on Jupiter to operate or something? Also how does skin survive in the vacuum? Still it's a cool idea.