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Back to the Moon: A Novel
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- Condition
- Release Year
- 1999
- ISBN
- 9780385334228
- Book Title
- Back to the Moon
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / General, General, Thrillers / Technological
- Item Weight
- 27.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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A renegade rocket man haunted by his past. A beautiful daredevil who thinks she can do it all--until she finds herself on the adventure of her life. A death-defying mission so risky, so audacious that no one would try it...unless the fate of the world depended on its success. Thirty years after man's first lunar landing, retired NASA engineer Homer Hickam, Jr., offers a brilliantly imagined, endlessly entertaining return to space adventure in his spectacular first novel, Back to the Moon. In his bestselling memoir, Rocket Boys, Hickam memorably evoked our captivation with our nation's first halting ventures into space. Now he reminds us of the long-lost wonder with which we once watched America's conquest of the moon--and celebrated the triumph of mind, soul, and spirit that got us there--in this page-turning tale of the first moon shot of the new millennium. Jack Medaris doesn't "borrow" the space shuttle Columbia to be a hero or a villain. A man of science driven by the memory of the woman who once inspired him, Jack risks his life, his name, and everything he has, to sidetrack the shuttle crew and take her on an unscheduled detour to the moon, where the secrets of his past--and the future of the world--await him. But when the meticulously plotted launch goes fatally wrong, and payload specialist Penny High Eagle further complicates Jack's plan, he must confront unforeseen challenges both in space and on the ground, where deadly forces are amassing to prevent the Columbia from reaching the moon. Writing with the detail and intelligence that only an insider could have, Hickam takes us to places few have ever seen, strapping us into the cockpit of the shuttle and hurtling us into orbit and beyond. From the crackling tension of mission control to the savage emptiness of deep space, from the massive rocket engines capable of generating millions of pounds of thrust to the tiny killing machines awaiting a bygone era's orders to unleash their high-tech fury, here are the sights and science of space as you've never seen them before. Here, too, are the men and women of unfailing invention and intelligence who are soon caught up in the story: astronauts and attorneys, physicists and politicians, unsung heroes behind the scenes and shadowy agents of darkness behind the veil of history. And at the spiraling tale's isolated center are Jack and Penny, locked in a battle of wit and wills, rocketing weightless through space as their fates grow inextricably intertwined. A no-holds-barred joyride of a thriller, Back to the Moon confirms that Homer Hickam is a master storyteller like no other, spinning a tale of high-flying adventure while expertly navigating the vast expanses of both the far-flung universe and the human heart.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385334222
ISBN-13
9780385334228
eBay Product ID (ePID)
419422
Product Key Features
Book Title
Back to the Moon
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / General, General, Thrillers / Technological
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
27.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
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"Wonderful....A great adventure yarn....Danger keeps zapping at you from all sides at top-gun speed...the action is nonstop." --The Washington Post Book World "Escalating tension, danger and excitement." --The New York Times Book Review, "Wonderful....A great adventure yarn....Danger keeps zapping at you from all sides at top-gun speed...the action is nonstop." --The Washington Post Book World "Escalating tension, danger and excitement." --The New York Times Book Review From the Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
21
Lccn
99-021995
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Lc Classification Number
Ps3558.I224b33 1999
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