Weaving an elaborate set of reports, stories, vignettes, and essays to examine a tense, violent world pausing in its turmoil to announce to the universe at large, ?Ready or not- here we come!? Clouds Over the Launchpad is a broad critique of a civilization's creeds and ways that presents insights into universal possibilities: heights a world could reach if the Space Age and Information Age could productively mesh. A liberating, ism-free look at the natural world.