London Book Festival Honorable Mention
The Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus is the second exciting book in mythologist, magic realist, and ufologist, Dr. Raymond A. Keller's internationally acclaimed and award-winning Venus Rising series. Some of the interesting and real individuals you'll meet in this book of astounding science include:
The German "Rocket Man" who saved New York City in early 1945, the wife of a Japanese prime minister who traveled to Venus in another dimension aboard an ethereal beam ship, a California contactee under constant surveillance by the FBI's Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and his public revelations that smashed the Venus Conspiracy.
The team of Russian scientists probing the mysteries of Venusian life being monitored by the ABOVE TOP SECRET United States Air Force's "Project White Stork," the mega-stars who have used various forms of magic to contact Venusians and other entities inhabiting the mysterious phantom zone known as "Dimension X."
The enigmatic psychic Maria Orsic and the members of the Vril Social Club that inspired the early German science fiction writers and rocket scientists and countless others also appear in the well documented pages of the Venus Rising series. So take your protein pills and put your helmet on because we are going to momentarily be blasting off for high adventures on Venus with both the Cosmic Ray himself and his long-time friend and associate, the glorious Queen of Outer Space!
Dr. Raymond A. Keller, II, award-winning author and retired History professor, is the author of the Venus Rising trilogy Final Countdown: Rockets to Venus and The Cosmic Ray's Excellent Venus Adventure are newest in the series. Dr. Keller's books explore various facets of conditions and life on Venus in many dimensions from a perspective of conspiracies, history, theosophy, ufology and current events, especially space research. To date, the first book, Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet, won awards at the Southern California and London Book Festivals. Dr. Keller has lived and worked in 44 different countries and has been writing about UFOs and paranormal activity since 1967. He was the founder and director of the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) of Hilmar, California, as well as the publisher and co-editor of the New Millennial Star, a monthly pre-Internet tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. He received his doctoral degree from West Virginia University in 2011 focusing on various aspects of the Basque settlement of Venezuela, and received his master's degree from the same institution in 2004 in foreign language with an emphasis on magic realism in Latin American literature.
