Recovering Apollo 8

Unique perspectives on technology, space, and aliens, and how they might affect humanity are explored in this compelling collection of short science fiction. In the title story, a near-future is examined in which an eight-year-old at the time of the loss of the Apollo 8 grows into a wealthy pioneer that devotes his life to recovering the capsule and its crew. In "The Strangeness of the Day" a shy, successful lawyer is hired by a near immortal to battle a witch to save his love, while suicide bombings are taken to a new, horrifying level, with the bombers chosen at birth in "Craters". A large pile of bones that do not seem to be human or animal is discovered at a renovation of a resort in "The End of the World", while an alternate history of the death and dark secrets of J. Edgar Hoover are imagined in "G-Men". Rounding off this fascinating compilation is a novella in which salvaging a 5,000-year-old spaceship is neither easy nor without dangers. This stunning compendium brings some of the most prestigious work from a prolific and visionary author into a single, essential volume.

ISBN 1930846622   Pages 316 ISBN13 9781930846623 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 531 Publisher Golden Gryphon Press   Published in Collinsville, IL Imprint Golden Gryphon Press   Height (mm) 215 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 140 Publication date 06 Jul 2010   Spine width (mm) 31 DEWEY 813.54   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction
		Recovering Apollo		8
		The Taste of Miracles		61
		The Strangeness of the Day		64
		Substitutions		87
		G-Men		104
		The End of the World		141
		June Sixteenth at Anna's		224
		Craters		237
		Diving into the Wreck		255
		Afterword		311

"Most fiction writers shy away from using real people in their work, but Kristine Kathryn Rusch is not most fiction writers. The title story of this short fiction collection is an award-winning re-imagining of the Apollo 8 launch, examining what would have happened if that space flight had been unsuccessful in its mission to orbit the moon. ... one of the most exciting short story collections I've read in years, perhaps ever." -- Essential Writers com Sept 2010

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