Books by Michael Cassutt and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Cassutt, Author . Forge $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0645-6
This thoroughly readable near-future space thriller takes place in 2006, with Space Station Alpha a going concern and the Chinese sending men into space. Billionaire Tad Mikleszewski has failed in efforts to launch a privately owned space booster,...
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Michael Cassutt, Author Doubleday Books $12.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-385-19846-2
America after the next war: small communities scraping to survive while enclaves of high tech barricade themselves in armed fortresses. This is one of the most common settngs for contemporary SF, with its graphic mirror of the current inequities...
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Michael Cassutt, Author Forge $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86620-4
As this exciting action thriller begins, Astronaut candidate Mark Koskinen manages to survive when a training aircraft crashes, killing chief NASA astronaut Joseph Buerhle, under what seem to Mark suspicious circumstances. Trying to complete his...
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Michael Cassutt, Author Forge $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-87440-7
What really happened to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, who died mysteriously in a plane crash? Why weren't the Russians the first to put a man on the moon? Accomplished space historian Cassutt (Who's Who in Space) offers an intriguing account
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David S. Goyer and Michael Cassutt. Ace, $25.96 (416p) ISBN 978-0-441-02033-1
This slick space opera trilogy starter sets up an interesting situation but never quite brings it to life. Rival expeditions from the U.S. and a Russia–India–Brazil coalition land on a planetoid and discover it's actually an ancient interstellar...
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Michael Cassutt. Chicago Review, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-1-61373-700-2
Cassutt (coauthor of We Have Capture) traces the arc of American space flight in this captivating biography of a NASA figure largely unknown to the general public despite his essential contributions to the lunar missions and the Space Shuttle. Over...
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