V-S Day: A Novel of Alternate History

By Allen M. Steele

Book Overview

With a gift for visionary fiction that "would make Robert A. Heinlein proud" ( Entertainment Weekly ) three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: what if the race to space had occurred in the early days of WWII? ? It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his Fuehrer to abandon the V2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new direction:?construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the U.S. Work on the rocket-called Silbervogel -begins at Peenemunde. Though it is top secret, British intelligence discovers the plan, and brings word to Franklin Roosevelt. The American President determines that there is only one logical response: the U.S. must build a?spacecraft capable?of intercepting Silbervogel and destroying 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425259749
• ISBN13: 9780425259740
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Ace
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher