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Michener, James A

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

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(1907-1997) US author of numerous bestsellers. His long novel Space (1982), televised 1985, is based on the history of the US space programme, becoming sf only in its later stages, when it describes invented missions and adventures roughly contemporaneous with the historical ones (e.g., a disaster owing to an outburst of solar radiation during an Apollo 18 lunar mission in 1973), and then peers optimistically into the Near Future. Among several errors of fact are consistent references to Stanley G Weinbaum as Stanley G Weinberg. [JGr]

see also: Rockets.

James Albert Michener

born Doylestown, Pennsylvania: 3 February 1907

died Austin, Texas: 16 October 1997

works

  • Space (New York: Random House, 1982) [hb/Richard Adelson]

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