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A Novel of Alternate History
出版Ace Hardcover, 2014
主題Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War IIFiction / Science Fiction / GeneralFiction / Science Fiction / Action & AdventureFiction / Alternative History
ISBN04252597499780425259740
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=mexxvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋With a gift for visionary fiction that would make Robert A. Heinlein proud ("Entertainment Weekly") three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: what if the race to space had occurred in the early days of WWII?
It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his Fuehrer to abandon the V2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new direction: construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the U.S. Work on the rocket called "Silbervogel" begins at Peenemunde. Though it is top secret, British intelligence discovers the plan, and brings word to Franklin Roosevelt. The American President determines that there is only one logical response: the U.S. must build aspacecraft capableof intercepting "Silbervogel" and destroying it. Robert Goddard, inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket, agrees to head the classified project.
So begins a race against time between two secret military programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes competition will spiral into a deadly game of political intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in the brutal skies above America."