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Simon and Schuster
March 2006
Featuring: Kip Dawson
288 pages
ISBN: 0743250524
Hardcover
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Science Fiction | Thriller
The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat
on one of American Space Adventure's commercial
spaceflights is a dream come true. One grand shot of
insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. It's a
bittersweet moment of triumph, however, muted by his
wife's terror over his accepting the prize. The day of the
launch, Kip tries to reconcile his wife's and daughters'
fears and even tries calling his estranged son, to no
avail. He sets off, vowing to make amends upon his return.
But a successful launch quickly morphs into chaos when a
micrometeor punches through the wall of the spacecraft,
leaving the radios as dead as the pilot.
In the blink of an eye, Kip Dawson is truly alone and has
no way of navigating the ship home. With nothing to do but
wait for death, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's
laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has
discovered it and is tracking his every word on the
Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue
him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries —
or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his
best chance of survival.
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