Jack Sharkey

2 Quotations from Jack Sharkey

overdrive n. 1960 J. Sharkey Crispin Affair in Fantastic July 96/2 We were about to go into overdrive, which had been patiently explained to me before boarding by Lora, who seemed to know more about electronics than any physics professor I ever met at Harvard, and I still didn’t understand it. It had something to do with Einstein’s theory…about faster-than-light travel.
space navigator n. 1964 J. Sharkey Venus Charm in Fantastic 106/2 Overhead, the cold white stars lay across the dome of dark emerald night sky in unfamiliar configurations. A good space navigator might be able to divine his probable locale from those stars, taking magnitude- and location-variables into three-dimensional account.