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Voyage

The NASA Trilogy, Book 1

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The space mission of a lifetime

An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall. There is: Dana, the Nazi camp survivor who achieves the dream of his hated masters; Gershon, the Vietnam fighter jock determined to be the first African American to land on another planet; and Natalie York, the brilliant geologist/astronaut who risks a career and love for the chance to run her fingers through the soil of another world.

©1996 by Stephen Baxter (P)2021 by Blackstone Publishing Fiction Science Fiction Solar System Warrior
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I enjoyed this book, though it did take some effort at times to get through the whole story.
Before the timeline diverges significantly it read more like a slightly altered history of Apollo, though cleverly allows you to see ahead for brief spells.
Worth persevering with, overall a listen to enjoy!

An interesting alternate history post Apollo…

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This book was exactly the kind of Hard Sci-Fi I really enjoy. Baxter has managed the alt-history, real history and imaginative sci-fi balance to perfection. I was rapt throughout. The narration, to my ears was spot-on. The voices, the tones, the rhythm were all captured just fine for me. I can't imagine it done better.

My Kind of Sci-Fi

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Brilliant story, but seriously let down by the narration. His intonation and cadence were immensely irritating.

Excellent research and imagination

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I really struggled with this audiobook. the story is probably great. I generally love stephen baxter but the narration is almost certainly an ai bot. there are just really weird cadances in the reading which suggests it is not being read by a person. this is one arena where I think people still rule. alternatively use better models

this has to be read by poor text to speech ai

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How VERY nice to have a book like this! Not just long, detailed and interesting, but informative despite being fiction. I remember the Kennedy assassination, the moon landings, and the shuttle disasters and wish that this novel was what really happened and that history was the fiction.
Well-drawn characters with no stereotypes, and very little personal stuff detailed in their lives. That, in itself, is a joy; so many novels rattle on a out romance, sex and marriage, divorce etc. which is so distracting....and boring.
Re-reading it right now!

Long, detailed and interesting.

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