Orbit: A Novel - Hardcover

Nance, John J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743250524 ISBN 13: 9780743250528

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2006

Synopsis

Winning a passenger seat on the American Space Adventure's 2009 launch, Kip Dawson finds himself facing death and doggedly typing his epitaph on the ship's computer after a micrometeorite damages the capsule and kills the pilot, a situation during which he is unaware that his writings are being pushed to the Internet and read by a horrified public. By the author of Saving Cascadia. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

John J. Nance, aviation analyst for ABC News and a familiar face on Good Morning America, is the author of seventeen books, including Fire Flight, Skyhook, Turbulence, and Headwind. Two of his novels, Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child, have been made into highly successful television miniseries. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Nance is a decorated pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield. He lives in University Place, Washington.

From AudioFile:

Author/narrator John J. Nance strikes a good balance in ORBIT, his book about a space tourist marooned in low-Earth orbit. This is good news because the book is largely an extended soliloquy by the tourist, as he writes about his life and experiences in space on a laptop connected to the Internet. Nance is somewhat weak when it comes to differentiating characters, but, as these are only a small part of the book, that's not a problem. The publishers use special effects to simulate radio transmissions from the spacecraft, which adds to the realism. The book's pace is good, and tension builds as the tourist struggles to bring the craft back to Earth himself. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0743250524
• ISBN 13: 9780743250528
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288