The Glass Lady: A Novel - Softcover

Savage, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589798457 ISBN 13: 9781589798458

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Rapid Response Team Memorandum Top Secret/Do Not Photocopy To: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) From: U.S. Space Defense Operations Center, Colorado Situation Report: Unmanned Soviet Kvant-3 space laboratory destroyed by defective U.S. Orbital Weapons Platform. Communications inoperative. Soviet retaliation imminent unless immediate action taken. Target: U.S. Low-power Atmospheric Compensation Experiment (LACE)-the most powerful weapon in orbit. Equipped with SECRET hydrogen-fluoride, five megawatt chemical laser, LODE 4-meter firing mirror, and Teal Ruby AFP-888 aiming mechanism. Current Status: 38 degree circular orbit at 130 nautical miles FULLY ARMED AND OUT OF CONTROL. Operation: U.S. astronauts Colonel William Parker and Lt. Commander Jacob Enright to fly Space Shuttle Endeavor in mission to deactivate LACE. Risk Factor: HIGH Special Orders: In event of mission failure, U.S. shuttle crew to be terminated with EXTREME PREJUDICE. Brief: Presidential briefing NOT RECOMMENDED.

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Review:

[The Glass Lady] is written with exquisite attention to creating realistic shuttle operations, right down to detailing every switch and panel on the checklist. . . . [T]he reader flies the mission . . . as it is really flown.--Richard Berry, Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Magazine

The Glass Lady is a technical masterpiece and a great story. . . . There have been writers of the sea who were this good, but Douglas Savage has set the standard for the literature of spaceflight.--Gordon Baxter, Contributing Editor, Flying Magazine

To read The Glass Lady is to fly the Space Shuttle. The book is a remarkable achievement in the literature of flight.--Allan Fritche, Editor, STS Mission Profiles Magazine

[A] unique approach. . . . Thoroughly researched, the book describes the mechanical complexities of the Shuttle and the wonders of space. . . . There is interesting information here.--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Douglas Savage is a critically acclaimed author of many books, including A Mouthful of Dust: A Portrait of a Writer in Search of His Own Red Badge of Courage, The Sons of Grady Rourke, Cedar City Rendezvous, Highpockets, Incident in Mona Passage, and The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee, a main selection of the History Book Club and an alternate selection of the Book of the Month Club.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1589798457
• ISBN 13: 9781589798458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416