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Cover artist Rob Prior Pages 576 Genre Hard science fiction | 4.2/5 Goodreads Media type ebook, hardcover Originally published 1998 Page count 576 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject NASA, civilian exploration of space Publisher Pulpless.com, then Bereshith Publishing Publication date 1996 (ebook)
October 1998 (hardcover) Awards Prometheus Award for Best Novel Similar Victor Koman books, Prometheus Award for Best Novel winners, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kings of the High Frontier is a hard science fiction novel by Victor Koman, first published (electronically) in 1996.
Contents
Summary
The story is a polemic about NASA. The thesis is that NASA, far from helping space exploration, actually prevents it from going forth. The narrative follows disparate engineering efforts, ranging from New York University engineering students working out of a warehouse in the Bronx to full-fledged commercial rocket operations, to create a single-stage to orbit reusable launch vehicle.
All of the science and equipment used in the story was based on technology that existed at the time of writing, like the space activity suit.
Editions
The novel was first published electronically by J. Neil Schulman's pulpless.com in 1996. It has since been published in hardcover by Bereshith Publishing in 1998, first in a "deluxe edition" of 250, then as a regular hardcover in a small print-run of 1250 copies. As of 2006, there is no paperback edition.