The Cassandra Project

Jack Mcdevitt

ISBN 10: 0425256456 / ISBN 13: 9780425256459

Verlag: Random House Okt 2013, 2013

Beschreibung

Neuware - Two science fiction masters Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick team up to deliver a classic thriller in which one man uncovers the hidden history of the United States space program. 'Houston, we have a problem." Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA's public affairs director. Proud of the Agency's history and sure of its destiny, he was thrilled to be a part of its future. But public disinterest and budget cuts changed that future. Now, a half century after the first Moon landing, Jerry feels like the only one with stars in his eyes. Then a fifty-year-old secret about the Apollo XI mission is revealed, and he finds himself embroiled in the biggest controversy of the twenty-first century, one that will test his ability and his willingness to spin the truth about a conspiracy of reality-altering proportions.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780425256459

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Cassandra Project
• Verlag: Random House Okt 2013
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0425256456
• ISBN-13: 9780425256459
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Two science fiction masters—Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick—team up to deliver a classic thriller in which one man uncovers the hidden history of the United States space program…
 
“Houston, we have a problem…”
 
Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA’s public affairs director. Proud of the Agency’s history and sure of its destiny, he was thrilled to be a part of its future.
 
But public disinterest and budget cuts changed that future. Now, a half century after the first Moon landing, Jerry feels like the only one with stars in his eyes.
 
Then a fifty-year-old secret about the Apollo XI mission is revealed, and he finds himself embroiled in the biggest controversy of the twenty-first century, one that will test his ability—and his willingness—to spin the truth about a conspiracy of reality-altering proportions...

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jack McDevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, English teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer, and is now a full-time writer. His novel Seeker won a Nebula Award, and he is a multiple Nebula Award finalist. He lives in Georgia with his wife, Maureen. 
 
Mike Resnick has won five Hugos (from a record thirty-six nominations), a Nebula, and other major awards in the US, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia, Catalonia, and Poland. He’s the author of seventy-one novels, more than two hundred and fifty short stories, and three screenplays, and is the editor of forty-one anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-seven languages.