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(3.6) | 1 | Hero or killer? In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything one can in space-including commit the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the moon, where he's head of the first US lunar colony. A series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances will force Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman will struggle against a deadly dilemma: if he rescues the world, he risks destroying himself.… (more) |
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Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat,
The mist in my face,
When the snows begin, and the blasts denote
I am nearing the place.
The power of the night, the press of the storm,
The post of the foe,
Where he stands, the arch Fear in a visible
Form.
Yet the strong man must go ....
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Mark Chartrand
despite his puns | |
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From the rear seat of the TF-15 jet the mountains of Utah looked like barren wrinkles of grayish brown, an old threadbare bedcover that had been tossed carelessly across the floor. | |
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Kinsman was written in bits and short stories over the ensuing years, but not actually published until after 1976 as a prequel to Millenium - after he had become a name and they would buy anything with his name on it. | |
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None ▾Book descriptions Hero or killer? In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything one can in space-including commit the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the moon, where he's head of the first US lunar colony. A series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances will force Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kinsman will struggle against a deadly dilemma: if he rescues the world, he risks destroying himself. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Born to wealth and privilege, Chet Kinsman has abandoned his family's Quaker roots to become one of America's hottest air Force astronauts. Kinsman is a schemer, a smug daredevil who embarrasses his superiors and believes that the world's ills cannot harm him ... until, in a secret orbital confrontation, Kinsman becomes the first person to commit murder in space.
Shattered by guilt, Kinsman is grounded and barred from active duty. But Chet Kinsman is addicted to space, convinced that human survival depends on conquering this last frontier. Using all of the resources available to him, Kinsman embarks on a project to secure humanity's future... in a desperate gambit that wil end in victory and peace ... or execution for treason. | |
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