Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby (Altered Space by Gerald Brennan

By Gerald Brennan

April, 1972. 3 mythical astronauts embark on man's boldest area voyage yet--a yearlong challenge to fly earlier our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus.

Island of Clouds, the 1st full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping house epic in keeping with NASA venture proposals from the overdue Nineteen Sixties. concerning literary and cultural impacts starting from Borges and Bukowski to Solaris and Star Trek, this tale of exploration additionally deals a literary probing of the darkish reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire.
Each access in the Altered Space series is a unconditionally separate narrative, yet all take care of the mysteries of area and time, development and circularity. each identify is an enso of phrases within which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets and other people let us clean views at the cycles of our personal lives.

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