A crackling, realistic thriller of intrigue and courage overflowing
with cool near-future ideas for a return to the glory days of lunar
exploration from the "dream-team" of science fiction writer Travis S.
Taylor (also a NASA and DOD consultant) and Les Johnson, Deputy Manager
for the Advanced Concepts Office at the NASA--a man who definitely knows
whereof he speaks.
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.
About Travis S. Taylor
"[E]xplodes with inventive action.--Publishers Weekly on Travis S.
Taylor's The Quantum Connection.
"[Warp Speed] reads like Doc Smith writing Robert Ludlum. . .You
won't want to put it down"--John Ringo
About Les Johnson:
". . . .*Solar Sails. . .*convincingly captures the history of. . .solar
sails. . .for aerospace students and keen enthusiasts alike."--Nature
