![]() ![]() He has also managed to develop through his sprawling narrative all of the major political, social and technological themes that resonated during the years of the first exploration of space. The author has, as usual, done his research well. And most of the actors of the drama, the pilots and engineers and politicians, were finding their vocations. The seeds of the cold war that would dictate the pace and character of early space flight were germinating. ![]() Rocket technology was being put to its first ambitious test by the Germans at Peenemunde. ![]() Michener writes of begins properly in the closing months of World War II. Michener's more notable recent books, ''Chesapeake'' and ''Centennial.'' Great sagas have a mythic quality, and myth takes time to evolve. The problem may be inherent in the story: It is too contemporary, the real people and events still too familiar, to lend itself to historical novelization in the manner of Mr. MICHENER has attempted to tell the story of the American space program through fiction, but not all that successfully. ![]()
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