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Fiction.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:“A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.”—The Wall Street Journal Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women—people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort; Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens; Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis; Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon; and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
Praise for Space “A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.”—The New York Times Book Review “Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Without question, the space program’s dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.”—BusinessWeek
“Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth’s atmosphere.”—The New York Times.… (meer)
My least favorite so far from Michener. I did enjoy the science parts but not so much the fiction parts. It was a real slog to finish. I felt it could have been 200 less and all the better for it. ( )
Here's what I wrote after reading in 1984: "Exploration of space traced from the late days of WWII. Yet, still questions remain unanswered; how did this universe begin? Why? It is the final frontier?" NOTE made in January, 2008 - Still to this day I remember John and Penny Pope driving across the U.S. together and strengthening their relationship. Some day DBA and I will do the same!! ( )
I loved some of Michener's other long books, so I figured this might be a fun read. Well, in fact this is one of the more boring space-oriented novels I've come across. In part, since it was written in the early 80's, and based on research Michener did in the 70's, there was only so much he could write about that would touch space exploration and space science more directly. Still, this novel is really not about space so much as it is a drawn out, poorly paced, jumbled account of 6 early astronauts in NASA's moon landing program, with a bit about how NASA came to be, and a few other related threads, all of which could be so much more interesting than they turn out to be in this novel. In addition, the author's sympathy seems to be with the ultra-conservative characters he describes, making it hard for me, as a modern, female reader, to relate to the characters and their problems. Of course, bow, we have had female astronauts, and we've landed rovers on Mars that send us color photos of the surface daily, and we just had a Pluto flyby with photos. We also have still never landed another person on the moon yet since the program described in this book ended. The reasons why we 'doomed' ourselves to not have another moon landing are brought up in this novel, and there are other interesting themes and ideas throughout this book, but related in a rather mind-numbing manner that allows the reader to feel the ponderousness of this long book, one slow page at a time. It could have been worse, but this is not one of Micheners best books. ( )
Thick and thin... 800 pages thick but thin everywhere else. Michener didn't seem to know when to end the book, despite many opportunities. Still, I was always enthralled with the Apollo program and NASA, so the backdrop adds a star to the rating.
I wonder what Michener would have thought of some of his more disturbing story elements coming true. The country heading backward into the dark ages, science losing to ignorance, NASA becoming inconsequential...sad. ( )
Voorwoord: Dit is een roman en het zou onjuist zijn om het boek als iets anders op de vatten. De families Mott, Grant, Pope en Kolff zijn verzonnen en zijn geen pseudoniemen voor bestaande personen. De "Solid Six groep" astronauten heeft nooit bestaan en ook is er nooit een Gemini 13 of Apollo 18 geweest. De grote NASA-bases, het gebeuren op de Patuxent Rivier, de handelingen in Korea en de algemene bezigheden van de astronauten daarentegen zijn realistische weergaven van de werkelijkheid. Bepaalde historische figuren worden kort ten tonele gevoerd, zoals presidenten Lyndon B. Johnson en Dwight D. Eisenhower, minister Wilson, de astronauten Deke Slayton en Mike Collins en de wetenschapsmensen Jack Eddy, John Houbolt en Carl Sagan, echter niet in fictieve rollen of in gezwollen redevoeringen. De Zeeslag voor de Golf van Leyte en het gedrag van zowel de Amerikaanse als de Japanse admiraals zijn waarheidsgetrouw weergegeven. Een escorterende torpedojager "Lucas Dean" heeft nooit bestaan, maar er waren wel soortgelijke oorlogsschepen en de beschreven daden zijn niet opgeschroefd. Als vermeld vond het grote bombardement op Peenemünde in augustus 1943 plaats. Het was een zuiver Britse actie, maar in het jaar daarop zijn er verdere bombardementen geweest en een daarvan heb ik geprafraseerd. De generaals Breutzl en Funkhauaser zijn uiteraard gefingeerd, maar Werner von Braun was natuurlijk reëel en nog machtiger en indrukwekkender dan als door mij aangegeven.
Opdracht
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
On 24 October 1944 planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Now they were being revived on a hillside in Vermont, and a thousand years from now they would still be debated on some other planet orbiting some other star in some other galaxy.
Fiction.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:“A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.”—The Wall Street Journal Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women—people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort; Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens; Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis; Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon; and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
Praise for Space “A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.”—The New York Times Book Review “Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Without question, the space program’s dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.”—BusinessWeek
“Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth’s atmosphere.”—The New York Times.
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Het verhaal begint in oktober 1944 en introduceert vier mannen: Stanley Mott, een in Engeland verblijvend Amerikaans geleerde met een geheime opdracht; Norman Grant, een zeeheld in de Zeeslag voor de Golf van Leyte; John Pope, rugby-ster en student in de sterrenkunde aan een Amerikaanse hogeschool; en Dieter Kolff, raketspecialist en medewerker van Wernher von Braun. Deze vier, die van cruciaal belang zijn voor het ruimtevaartprogramma, en hun vrouwen, zijn de hoofdrolvertolkers in de lange reeks van medespelers.
Het verhaal wordt levendig, dramatisch en helder verteld: de ingewikkelde proefnemingen, uitvindingen en planning van wetenschapsmensen en technici, en hun discussies over middelen en doelstellingen; hun speculaties over toekomstige verrichtingen in de ruimte en over mogelijke levensvormen in andere melkwegstelsels; de persoonlijke naijver; de politieke manipulaties in Washington; de selectie en de training van de ruimtevaarders; de met de vluchten en landingen verbonden opwinding en spanning; de confrontaties met de openbare meningen en met de media...
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