Voyage

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Baxter is an acclaimed, multiple-award-winning author whose many books include the Xeelee Sequence series, the Time Odyssey trilogy (written with Arthur C. Clarke), and The Time Ships , a sequel to H. G. Wells's classic The Time Machine . He lives in England. Zusammenfassung The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America's might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket, and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall. There is: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African-American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks a career and love for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Baxter, Baxter Stephen
• Publisher: Harper Voyager US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.10.1997
• EAN: 9780061057083
• ISBN: 978-0-06-105708-3
• No. of pages: 784
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 60 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; FICTION: General, FICTION: Science Fiction / General, FICTION: Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, FICTION: Science Fiction / Military, FICTION: Science Fiction / Space Exploration, FICTION: Romance / Science Fiction