"Examines the perils of what the author calls pathological technologies, inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure, "--Novelist.

Beginnings -- The man in the sky -- The philosopher's stone of flight -- The flying bomb -- The delirium -- Demystifying Gargantua -- A technological anomaly -- Death rattle of a Leviathan -- From hubris to horror in thirty-four seconds -- Pathological technology's chamber of horrors -- Progress through H-bombs -- The Godzilla of physics -- Stardate 90305.55 -- Endings -- The six Hindenburgs -- The pathology of delirium.