Space, James A. Michener
Space, James A. Michener
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Space

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Unabridged: 37 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/25/2015


Synopsis

Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women—people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort; Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens; Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis; Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon; and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world.
 
Praise for Space
 
“A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Without question, the space program’s dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.”—BusinessWeek
 
“Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth’s atmosphere.”—The New York Times

About The Author

James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.Larry McKeever was an actor, narrator, and recording artist. He narrated hundreds of books, including novels by James A. Michener, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein. For more than 15 years, he contributed monthly to Braille Monitor, the leading publication of the National Federation of the Blind, and became known as the “voice of the blind.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by Olethros on March 05, 2019

-Con técnicas de otra época y mediante “ficción realista”, homenaje a la carrera espacial.- Género. Novela. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Espacio (publicación original: Space, 1982) nos acerca, mezclando ficción y realidad, al camino que siguieron los Estados Unidos de América para conquistar el espacio......more

Goodreads review by Julie on July 09, 2019

I have spent the past few days in Space :) What a trip! I am mind boggled at what the scientists, politicians and astronauts had to learn and do for our space program. Totally humbled and mind boggled.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on October 18, 2014

Published 32 years ago, this entertaining and enlightening novel evidences Michener's high opinion of such science fiction writers as Clarke, Weinbaum and Leiber as well as reservations about some tendencies of this popular genre. He even indulges himself a bit in it by creating a fictional account......more

Goodreads review by Cliff on November 05, 2020

Even though I love reading Michener I was somewhat reluctant to read this one. It was written in 1982. Surely the story and the science is going to be heavily out of date and everybody already knows about Neil Armstrong taking the first human steps on the moon. Tedious and boring and missing all the......more

Goodreads review by Emily on October 07, 2018

I was so involved in this book that I started Googling what has happening while I was reading it because I was astounded to have such poor knowledge about the American space program. Then I figured out that two of the major missions they discussed are fictional. I mean, I know that Michener writes f......more


Quotes

“A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.”The Wall Street Journal
 
“A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.”The New York Times Book Review
 
Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Without question, the space program’s dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.”BusinessWeek
 
“Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth’s atmosphere.”The New York Times