Back to the Moon

By Travis S. Taylor

Book Overview

The Saga of the Return to the Moon, This Time to Stay--and the Technological Problems are the Simplest to Solve. Science Fiction by Two Scientists Who Know Both Science and the Ways of Government Bureaucracies.

The space race is back on. While NASA stages a fiftieth anniversary return to the Moon, a gritty private company puts together its own moonshot, complete with space tourists in tow. Across the globe, the Chinese are determined to arrive first this time. What's more, they'll do whatever it takes to win--including stealing every bit of American technology they can pilfer and hack. But just as politics and spectacle threaten to overshadow real accomplishment yet again, something goes horribly wrong on the lunar surface. Now the front-line troops, the astronauts themselves, must put aside the squabbles of others and take fate into their own hands. For it is time to prove that humans are not merely redundant cogs in a vast "lunar delivery process"-but that exploration and adventure in space is humanity's destiny.

Praise for Travis S. Taylor:

" Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . . . You won't want to put it down." --John Ringo

"In the tradition of Golden Age SF . . . explodes with inventive action . . . dazzling . . . cutting-edge scientific possibilities. . . ." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for Les Johnson:

". . . Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel . . . convincingly captures the history of ideas about solar sails, their current state of play and their future promise. . . . Suitable for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike. . . ." --Stuart Clark, Nature

"I can recommend this book Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos] to everyone interested in the future of space exploration." --Claude Semay, Physicalia

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439134057
• ISBN13: 9781439134054
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up