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V-S Day: A Novel of Alternate History [Inscribed]
by Steele, Allen
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0425259749
- ISBN 13
- 9780425259740
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Ace Books, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G+ Hardcover w/ Dustjacket; Brown, Red and Silver pictorial spine with Red text; Dustjacket has some edgewear, slight shelfwear; Boards strong, some edgewear, slight shelfwear, bumping to corners; Textblock has black marks on page 67, otherwise clean; 308 pp; Inscribed by author to Science Fiction author Gregory Benford. 1341334. FP New Rockville Stock.
Synopsis
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 a spacecraft capable of 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.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1341334
- Title
- V-S Day: A Novel of Alternate History [Inscribed]
- Author
- Steele, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0425259749
- ISBN 13
- 9780425259740
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
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