Spaced Out Stars

Space Age titles Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • Code to Zero
    Author: Follett, Ken
    Publisher: Dutton $ 26.95 ISBN: 0525945636 Date: 2000
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    At Cape Canaveral, a countdown has begun in January 1958. On launch pad 26B sits Explorer 1, America's best hope to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the race for the skies above. In the meanwhile, a man wakes to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station. And until he remembers who he is, he may be left powerless to save the launch of Explorer--and with it, America's future.
    Updated 11/30/00
  • Decipher
    Author: Pavlou, Stel
    Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312280750 Date: 2002
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    In this fascinating blend of science, mythology, and language, ancient monuments the world over are being awakened by a signal emanating from deep within the ice of Antarctica. The signal contains secrets that threaten to destroy the world.
    Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
    Updated 7.17.02
  • Gentlemen of Space
    Author: Sher, Ira
    Publisher: Free Pr $ 23 ISBN: 0743242181 Date: 2003
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    Magnolia Court is not the most magical place in Florida, but to young Georgie Finch, this outsized housing project is the center of the universe. In this superbly crafted and imaginative novel, Georgie tells the story of when his father, Jerry, won a competition in 1976 to become the first civilian man on the moon.
    Updated 3.31.03
  • A Hole in Texas
    Author: Wouk, Herman
    Publisher: Little Brown $ 25 ISBN: 0316525901 Date: 2004
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    From the legendary bestselling author comes a rollicking Washington novel about a media firestorm swirling around a vast hole in Texas and one obscure NASA scientist who gets swept up in the vortex and becomes a national figure overnight.
    Updated 2.10.04

Nonfiction

  • Astro Turf
    Author: Lord, M. G.
    Publisher: Walker $ 24 ISBN: 0802714277 Date: 2005
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    Revisiting memories of her childhood and her mother's death, the author remembers her fascination with science and space exploration and how it became interwoven with the pain and loneliness caused by her father's immersion in his work at the Jet Propulsion Lab in the '60s.
    Updated 2.7.05