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Zusatztext Praise for Allen Steele “Would make Robert A. Heinlein proud.”— Entertainment Weekly “One of the field’s very finest writers.” —Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award–winning author “Allen Steele is among the best.”— St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Allen Steele is always good.”—Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author “The closest thing the science fiction world now has to Robert A. Heinlein.”— SFRevu And Praise for VS Day “Filled with fascinating minutiae of the early days of modern rocketry and exceptional characterization.”— Booklist “Awesome, meticulous attention to scientific details, engineering protocols, bureaucratic procedures, and international politics.”— Locus “A searing blast of ‘what if.’”—SFFWorld.com “Thoughtful and fascinating, as entertaining and well-executed an alternate history as you’re going to find. It’s subtle and ultimately successful, demonstrating once again that you can take a tiny moment, alter a simple decision, and end up with something new and interesting. This, like anything, shows why Steele’s a multiple Hugo winner, and why he remains relevant.”—Tor.com Informationen zum Autor Allen Steele is the three-time Hugo Award-winning author of Coyote Destiny , Coyote Horizon , Coyote , and Coyote Rising . Originally a journalist who covered the space program, Steele later turned to fiction writing and his first novel, Orbital Decay , was chosen Best First Novel of the Year by Locus . Allen himself went on to be twice nominated for the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer. In 2013, he received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for outstanding published works in science fiction. He and his wife, Linda, who is a DJ, now live in Massachusetts. Klappentext Three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: What if the race to space had occurred in the early days of World War II? It's 1941! and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his fuhrer to abandon the V-2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new direction: construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the United States. When the top secret plan is leaked to Franklin Roosevelt! the president has only one logical response: The United States must build their own spacecraft to destroy it. Robert Goddard! inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket! agrees to head the classified project. So begins a race against time between two secret military programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes competition will spiral into a deadly game of political intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in the brutal skies above America. Leseprobe June 1, 1943 In the first light of morning, the B-29A Superfortress Hollywood Babe hovered above the Pacific a hundred miles west of the Washington coast. The sun had just risen, its golden light tinted the bomber’s silver skin and reflected off the panes of its bullet-shaped cockpit. No clouds in the dark sky above the plane; the stars were still visible but were beginning to fade with the approaching day. A little more than a half hour ago, Hollywood Babe had lifted off from McChord Field near Tacoma and flown due west, gradually ascending to its present altitude of thirty-one thousand feet, the bomber’s maximum ceiling. Since then, the plane had flown in circles, its contrails forming an overlapping series of figure eights which would have puzzled any fishing boats that might have spotted it from below. In this way, the B-29A held its position above the ocean, allowing its crew to perform its mission: watch the skies and report anything unusual. Inside the pressurized fuselage, a young airman first class moved forward to the cockpit, a Thermos bottle and tw...
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Allen Steele
