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One of the most damning things that can be said about a script is that it is "episodic," meaning that it dawdles when it should accelerate, that the writer is less interested in the ruthless propulsion of the story than in leisurely details of tone and character.
In this Wolfe succeeds ably, infusing his tale with characteristic wit, verve, and narrative propulsion.
Their electronic propulsion systems tended to conk out, especially when braking, causing them to smash one dock after another.
I term this rate of reduction of age-specific mortality risk ‘actuarial escape velocity’ (AEV), because an individual's remaining life expectancy is affected by aging and by improvements in life-extending therapy in a way qualitatively very similar to how the remaining life expectancy of someone jumping off a cliff is affected by, respectively, gravity and upward jet propulsion (Figure 1).
There being no way into this story other than through the briefings and access provided by the mission's organizer, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Mars pieces in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times are relentlessly similar.