Island of Clouds: The Great 1972 Venus Flyby
Gerald Brennan$16.99
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April, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on man's boldest space voyage yet--a yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus.
Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the dark reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire.
The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an ensō of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tortoise Books
Published: 05/08/2017
ISBN: 9780986092299
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 1.02d
Review Citations: Foreword 04/26/2017
Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the dark reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire.
The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an ensō of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tortoise Books
Published: 05/08/2017
ISBN: 9780986092299
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 1.02d
Review Citations: Foreword 04/26/2017