James A. Michener was one of the world's most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
"A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a
phenomenon. Space is one of his best books."-The Wall
Street Journal
"A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically
sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could
be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect."-The
New York Times Book Review
"Space is everything that Michener fans have come to
expect. Without question, the space program's dramatic dimensions
provide the stuff of great fiction."-BusinessWeek
"Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space,
as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into
earth's atmosphere."-The New York
Times
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