Larry Richardson

Orion (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We live in a world of 'what if?'
The book takes place in world created The Colonisation of Mars in which the Americans sent a mission to Mars in the 1970s by a nuclear-pulse powered spaceship - Orion. While this was actually planned in 'our' world this did not happen for a number of reasons. Number one was probably the creation of NASA and their involvement in the Race to the Moon. Also, President Kennedy was evidently opposed to it and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty blocked it.

The world of this book saw nuclear bombs used to end World War II in Europe too and become an everyday fact of life to build canals, to dig ditches, for mining and to resolve border disputes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Larry Richardson
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005704032
• Artikelnr.: 70044732

Autorenporträt

TCOM1 was written for the most part while the author was traveling and working in the Canadian Arctic during 2006-2011 and has been edited often since then (as recently as 2019) to keep abreast of developments in the exploration of Mars and to 'fix' some story lines (George Lucas did it!). The author's experiences as a technician, technologist, Military Officer, Project Manager and late-to-the fold Pink Floyd/Roger Waters and melodic progressive music fan have greatly influenced the two TCOM books. He is still a consultant to the Defense Communications Industry and still travels frequently to the Canadian Arctic, in all seasons.

TCOM2 continues the story of Sam Aiken on Mars. It was written between 2011 and 2018 and underwent many changes in that time that made it less in the style of TCOM1 and turned it into something else. It does answer many of the questions left unanswered in TCOM1 (some intentionally, some not) but it is not the same in terms of pacing and the attempt to mimic classic sci-fi of the nineteen thirties, forties and fifties (although there is some of that too). Music influenced the writing of TCOM1 in some ways, mostly subtly. Music is present in TCOM2, for a different reason.

Orion is the story of the 1970s nuclear powered spaceship that appears in TCOM1 and TCOM2.