Comments about technological history, system fractures, and human resilience from James R. Chiles, the author of Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology (HarperBusiness 2001; paperback 2002) and The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks, the Story of the Helicopter (Random House, 2007, paperback 2008)

Saturday, August 21, 2010

The Other Book

Helicopter enthusiasts: check out my webpage on my book for Random House, The God Machine: From Boomerangs to Black Hawks, the Story of the Helicopter. It's a social history of helicopters, inventors, and pilots. It came out in 2007 and the paperback followed in 2008. Had a great editor on that project, John Flicker of Bantam Dell.

I got interested in the subject of what helicopters could, and couldn't, do while researching a chapter to add to Inviting Disaster on the World Trade Center evacuation. Scientific American named it as a holiday book pick for 2007.

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