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Adult/High School-Rick, a young astronaut in an aging Shuttle program, is mourning the loss of NASA's glory days of manned space exploration when he sees something impossible-a new Saturn V rocket blasting off from a derelict Apollo launch site long designated "abandon in place." Soon ghost rockets are embarking regularly from it. The space agency orders Rick to destroy the next Saturn, but he takes control of the mystery ship instead. With two other astronauts-his girlfriend and a Japanese scientist-he completes the ship's mission to the moon's south pole. The three return to the Earth as heroes, hoping their exploit has rekindled the public's dream of space exploration. However, the world is more interested in the occult nature of the event-especially when it becomes apparent that the odd voyage has awakened paranormal powers in Rick and Tessa. After a thrilling escape from the CIA, followed by a hilariously hyperbolic wedding, the couple settles down to explore their new psychic powers in a reinvented space program. Based on a Nebula Award-winning novella, this fast-paced adventure has humor, strong characterizations, sharp contemporary insights, and real vision. Equal parts hard science and ghost story, New Physics and New Age, it has a cheeky disregard for the traditional boundaries of the genre that will infuriate some SF fans as much as it will delight others. General readers with a taste for the unusual can also appreciate this yarn.-Christine C. Menefee, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
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