Come Thursday I'll be heading down to Florida to watch the launch of the shuttle Endeavour as a guest of Mission Specialist Colonel "Mike" Fincke, one of the crew for the flight and a fan of my writing. Since the crew headed into prelaunch preparations today, I knew Colonel Fincke wouldn't have the opportunity to buy a copy of Dreadnaught before the flight, so my publisher arranged to have an early ebook copy delivered to him so he can take Dreadnaught into space. If all goes well, on Friday Dreadnaught will head into orbit along with STS-134, which I think qualifies as a real book launch.