Orbit
A Novel
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's spacecraft is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. But the thrill of the successful launch turns to terror when a micrometeorite penetrates the capsule, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot. Reality hits: Kip isn't going home.
With nothing to do but wait for his doomed fate, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets underway to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries -- or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Nance, a seasoned author of aviation thrillers (Fire Flight), takes his plots and counterplots into space in this solid effort set in 2009. Civilian Kip Dawson is excited that he's won a seat as a passenger aboard American Space Adventure's Intrepid. But, once the space plane reaches orbit, an apparent meteorite strike kills the pilot and disables radio communication. Skulduggery involving the police, the FBI and anti-satellite weapons complicates the situation, while Kip's on-board log makes it clear that he's a good deal more than just a space tourist. Meanwhile, the discovery that there's someone alive aboard Intrepid launches a frantic three-way race among NASA, ASA and the Russians. Revelations come thick and fast, and the conspiracy-mongering may put off some readers who have been carried along by the excellent pacing, technical details and characterization. The book remains, however, an absorbing and tightly-written piece of storytelling, with a particularly engaging and well-developed protagonist.
