Our videoblogged Five Easy Questions features Paul Malmont this week, a novelist nearing the end of a tour of the podcast circuit. I’m always cheered by new media and bookish interaction, so I wanted to point out some the……

Alas, it is the lot of a Bionic Genius to be misunderstood.

Moshu is correct in stating that Yuri, and not an American astronaut, was the first man in space; however, I never said an American astronaut was first in space.

If you will go back to my original sentence, it states: “Mission after mission successfully sent men first into orbit, then onto the surface of the moon.” As any grammarian and sentence structural engineer will know, this sentence simply means that men were sent into orbit by NASA before going to the moon.

Thank you. You may now put your heads down on your desks and close your eyes for five minutes.

successfully sent men first into orbit,

Not entirely true…
What about Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин?
[for those less informed: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin]