Jerry B Oltion - Abandon in Place - 9

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Abandon in Place

I picked this book up two days ago in the withdrawn from the library bin. It cost me a grand total of $1 for the hardcover edition (which was in very good shape).

The book was very well written, albeit a little wierd in places.

The basic premesis of the book is that because of Neil Armstrong's death, ghost Apollo rockets launch off every month. On the third such launch, one of the shuttle pilots is equipped and sent into it, so that they could figure out what was happenning to these things.

Later on, he defies NASA, gathers up a pair of additional people from the space shuttle currently in space, and decides to ride the rocket to the moon, to complete the first lunar landing in over 30 years. Of course, NASA attempts to abandon them, to which the Russian respond and take over, and then the Japanese start listening on the channel, which forces NASA to help them, or else they would look really, really bad to the public.

Later still in the book, they figure out that people who have a lot of people believing in them become a "focus" of power. And from that, it becomes mind over matter.

Of course, evil has a person who has gotten his own large following begins to take control of europe. The same Apollo pilot decides to try and create his own Apollo to smash the dictator with (because when something that large lands on a person, they feel it).

It was amusing, and the biggest thing that detracted from the book for me was that I had read it as the novella first, so a couple of minor changed to make it work as a full length novel. I like the faster-than-light engine he had developed in the novella.

Other than that, it was a great read. It didn't take long for me to read at all, and it was funny in many places.

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