Kings of the High Frontier

by Victor Koman

Three-time Prometheus Award winner Victor Koman (Millennium: Weeds), who sicced an assassin on God in The Jehovah Contract and imploded the abortion controversy in Solomon's Knife, brings us his epic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966566203
• ISBN13: 9780966566208
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Final Frontier Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the Best

Like much of the great science fiction of the past, this book has a definite libertarian theme. My only faults with it were 1) lost of sleep while reading it because it is one of those books that you can't put down and 2) one rape scene that I considered a lot more graphic than it needed to be and thereby precludes my recommending the book to younger readers. One might object that many of the characters in the book are too black and white, but I would maintain that Koman may be closer to the truth here than many are willing to admit. The reality is that evil exists and most politicians are scum. "Kings of the High Frontier" immediately flew into my top 10 fiction list. Victor Koman seems a worthy successor to Robert Heinlein.

The Dream Re-Awakened.

I recieved my copy of this fantastic book less than 24 hours ago and have read it non-stop every waking moment until I finished it a few minutes ago. I recall clearly the day that man walked on the Moon, being a wide-eyed 6-year-old at the time, I knew at that time that one day, I would HAVE to go into space myself. This novel re-awakened that 30-year-old dream to be in space myself. It's characterers are intellegent and determined to not let governments be the monopolizers of the high frontier, so several groups unaware of each other's plans, at first, each begin constrution on ships that will let them break free of the Earth and it's suffocating States. Find yourself a copy... And dare to dream!

Inspirational

Just finished re-reading this last night. I noticed that it has a lot of derivation from Rand and Heinlein (and that's a good thing!) It's a crime that this book isn't a bestseller...it's truly inspirational.

5 Stars is Not Enough

Kings of the High Frontier takes the reader through a wide range of emotions; from rage at the condescending arrogance of the head of the National Organization of Space Supporters in his efforts to suppress any private space launch, to an almost unbearable excitement as the ships take flight. Victor Koman reminds us of what human beings can accomplish as long as we are willing to make the effort and not give up.

Inspiring. The greatest SF novel in at least a decade.

I had the privilege of being the eighth person to buy Kings of the High Frontier when it was first published in electronic form by Pulpless.com. I feel rather as if I were there when Vincent Van Gogh swept the final stroke of pigment onto Starry Night or Ayn Rand scrawled the last word of Atlas Shrugged. This book is that good. It's good on at least two levels. First, and crucially, it's a walloping great adventure story. One friend not only stayed up all night to read it, but told me she leaped to her feet and danced around the room during the book's most magnificent scene. Second, without any lecturing or heavy-handedness, this book is an important philosophical statement about free minds and free lives. Oh yeah, it's also an indictment of NASA so accurate and so fierce it's a wonder that agency hasn't crumbled to dust before Victor's rage. I can think of no book I could recommend more highly, and no recent book that has so filled my heart and my spirit. To freedom! And to space!