Voyage - Hardcover

Baxter, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061052582 ISBN 13: 9780061052583

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

Creates a recent past in which President Kennedy survives an assassination attempt to set in motion the next great NASA mission, a manned voyage to Mars, in a story of NASA's detailed plans to visit the red planet--if they had ever been realized.

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Review:

Kennedy survived. Like many alternate history stories, that's the premise of Stephen Baxter's Voyage. But in Baxter's version of the past, that one altered fact is the propellant that drives humanity into space, beyond the primitive lunar landings of the 1960s. Spurred by a JFK who champions space flight and a Nixon administration that backs NASA, humans reach Mars in 1986. But this is a tragic tale as well as a triumphant one, for Baxter's relentless realism chronicles the perils of extended space flight as well as its glamorous achievements, making for a gritty, true-to-life story.

About the Author:

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Northumberland.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0061052582
• ISBN 13: 9780061052583
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 6511