The Moon and the Desert
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- USD 6.99
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Descripción editorial
What would it really take to make the Six Million Dollar Man? a medical thriller on earth and in space!
Glenn Armstrong Shepard had his sights set on going to Mars as a flight surgeon, but a training accident on the Moon left him crippled. Now he has a new plan: to be fitted with bionic prosthetics and come back even stronger.
Fate and the Space Force have other plans, and Glenn is grounded. Another doctor—his ex-fiancée—takes his place, and Glenn will have to fight to prove he can be an astronaut once more. . . .
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About Stellaris: People of the Stars, co-edited by Robert E. Hampson:
“[A] thought-provoking look at a selection of real-world challenges and speculative fiction solutions. . . . Readers will enjoy this collection that is as educational as it is entertaining.” —Booklist
“This was an enjoyable collection of science fiction dealing with colonizing the stars. In the collection were several gems and the overall quality was high.” —Tangent
Robert E. Hampson, Ph.D., is a professor of physiology/pharmacology and neurology with more than thirty-five years’ experience in animal neuroscience and human neurology. He has consulted with more than a dozen science fiction authors to create plausible scientific backgrounds for their fiction.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Neuroscientist Hampson (The Human Side) excels at making difficult technical material approachable to layreaders, but flounders a bit with plotting in this uneven space romp inspired by Martin Calder's 1972 novel Cyborg and the television series The Six Million Dollar Man. Glenn "Shep" Shepherd is the monitoring medical officer on Moonbase in 2039 when he rescues a trapped colleague from a fire on a lunar rover and is himself so severely injured that he requires an "extensive rebuild" with mostly experimental prosthetics. Shep's demanding rehabilitation is spurred by his burning desire to go to Mars, but his hoped-for position is stolen by his former lover and now rival, Yvette Barbier. On her return from Mars, Barbier and her crew fall mysteriously ill, and Shep overcomes political and bureaucratic problems to wangle a dangerous rescue mission. Science-minded readers will relish the passages of extrapolated medical and psychological procedures, but the character interactions, particularly their often Grade B dialogue and stilted romantic maneuvers, suffer by comparison. This is hard science fiction with a vengeance.
