Name: Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby (Altered Space) (Volume 3)
Price: 20.43 EUR
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Author: Brennan, Gerald
ISBN: 9780986092299

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Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby (Altered Space) (Volume 3)

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Physical Book

Author

Gerald Brennan

Publisher

Tortoise Books

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 2.7 cm

Weight

0.51 kg.

ISBN13

9780986092299

Synopsis "Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby (Altered Space) (Volume 3)"

April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on mankind's boldest space voyage yet--a yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. What follows will be a journey more harrowing than any of them can imagine. Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the dark reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire. The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an ensō of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.

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