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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This was a nifty little book. You can tell, I think, that this is a first novel and that Lake got his start doing short stories; the writing has a staccato feel to it, but remains free of most of the typical first novel errors. The real accomplishment in it, to my mind, was to recapture the breezy, optimistic, innocent feel of 40s and 50s science fiction (admittedly, by writing a bit of science fiction set in the 40s) without replicating the myriad category errors of the time. It was also a pleasure to read some positive science fiction for a change; despite the narrator being literally beset with Nazis, bootleggers, Russian spies, and the government, it was overall a cheerful and uplifting little book. If you miss Heinlein's early stuff (you know, pre-incest-kick) you should check this one out. (  ) kfeete | Nov 9, 2007 |  verkisto | Jun 28, 2006 | mcurry | May 5, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0974657360, Paperback)In ROCKET SCIENCE, Jay Lake's first novel, Vernon Dunham's friend Floyd Bellamy has returned to Augusta, Kansas after serving in World War II, but he hasn't come back empty-handed: he's stolen a super-secret aircraft right from under the Germans. Vernon doesn't think it's your ordinary run-of-the-mill aircraft. For one thing, it's been buried under the Arctic ice for hundreds of years. When it actually starts talking to him, he realizes it doesn't belong in Kansas-or anywhere on Earth. The problem is, a lot of folks know about the ship and are out to get it, including the Nazis, the U.S. Army-and that's just for starters. Vernon has to figure out how to communicate with the ship and unravel its secrets before everyone catches up with him. If he ends up dead, and the ship falls into the wrong hands, it won't take a rocket scientist to predict the fate of humanity.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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