2 Books by Martin Caidin
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Overview: Martin Caidin was a prolific and controversial writer. Most of his work centered around the adventures of pilots and astronauts. A number of his books were notable for their reasonable, realistic predictions of then-futuristic technology.
Genre: Science Fiction
Marooned
Mr. Caidin has invented a new literary form: the electronic novel. He substitutes communications devices, computers, guidance systems and launching specifications for those homely old paragraphs of food, love and labor that used to hold our interest. What he has done is to create a melodramatic situation that allows him to exploit, mention and catalogue every fuel line, transistor and operation in …
More Project Mercury. Major Richard J. Pruett, USAF, on detached service with NASA, is hanging just outside the atmosphere in a space capsule whose retro-rockets won’t fire and get him back to earth. He’s our fifth astronaut and quite likely first casualty (only three days of oxygen left). Cape Canaveral starts mysterious preparations but before they can be completed the Russians launch a rocket which attempts to rescue Pruett for a propaganda feat. The Russian cosmonaut adjusts his orbit to the American’s and tells him he’ll pick him up, but meanwhile Pruett’s best friend has taken off in a missile to beat the Russian. Though the Russian is satisfied that he could perform the rescue, he aids the best friend to rescue Pruett. Each detail of this story is patiently particularized, with the slow-motion climax of a launchpad cavalry charge to save a white man from the Reds.–Kirkus
Beamriders!
The Technology: A Giant Step Into The Future. In the thirty years since lasers were invented, we have learned to use the fior jobs as diversa as eye surgery and missle defence, but the biggest advance is yet to come: one day soon we will be able to beam human beings from place to plance on Earth, and even into Space.
The Book: High Tech Adventrue as only Martin Caiden Can Write it!
Beamriders chronicles the achievements of the men and women who brave death in the development of just such a laser-transport system. Assignments that no on else can accomplish await the survivors: The rescue of a U.S. scientist from a cell beneath the Kremlin; defusing atomic blackmail in Washington; and strangest of all, a mission to the Far Side of the Moon. On Earth and in Space, nothing can stop The Beamriders!
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