| V-S Day Contributor(s): Steele, Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425259757 ISBN-13: 9780425259757 Publisher: Ace Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure - Fiction | Alternative History - Fiction | Science Fiction - Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4.1" W x 6.6" (0.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: What if the race to space had occurred in the early days of World War II? It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his fuhrer to abandon the V-2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new direction: construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the United States. When the top secret plan is leaked to Franklin Roosevelt, the president has only one logical response: The United States must build their own spacecraft to destroy it. Robert Goddard, inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket, agrees to head the classified project. So begins a race against time between two secret military programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes competition will spiral into a deadly game of political intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in the brutal skies above America. |