Kings of the High Frontier
by Victor Koman

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Book Review: Most of the most beautiful wriiten novels about space
Summary: 5 Stars

Victor Koman, who I have the honor to have exchanged emails with once, is a (extreemly unfairly) overlooked author of a first-rated talent. In this Kings of the High Frontier, we are introducted to wide varisty of characters who are fated to meet in one way or another in their struggle to achieve their common dream: to reach space. In his and her own way, each have to contents with powerful and bloated beast of the Federal Government and its lapdogs at NASA and national security gangesters who fears the potential of private space transportation because in space, men and women will gain access to unlimited wealth and freedom with many resources in the system waiting untapped. It's rather tough to regulate and to tax free men when a station can simply pick up and move to another location farther out, not to meation like how will you settle the issuse of which states to do the taxing. Short answer, you can't.

But to get there, you have to create a private transportation first.

That's the heart of this novel. Different people, from graduate school at NYU to internet to the dusty sands of White Sands testing ground, take the proved concepts from various sources and build their own version in the race againest time, each other, and the NASA to be the first private ship into low earth orbit. Everythng is here, ambition, passion, coruption, power struggle, friendship, joy of challenge and romance. Romance is the emotion that engerize this novel, romance of freedom, of space and of love.

If you want a book that will keep up up all night and be thrilled with the imagination and love of charcters who dared to keep their dreams alive, then brother, this is the one for you!

Summary of Kings of the High Frontier

Tammy Reis, beautiful NASA Space Shuttle commander, works for the most highly funded, technologically advanced space program in the world. So why do nightmares of the Challenger disaster haunt her sleep? And why is NASA incapable of recapturing the stunning successes it once achieved?

Visionary spacecraft designer Gerry Cooper struggles at his tiny rocket company in the Mojave Desert. Who in the world wants him stopped -- or dead?

One-armed billionaire playboy Laurence Poubelle hopes to build his own orbital X-15. Can his keen marketing skills overcome a nation hostile to wealth and contemptuous of adventure?

Meanwhile, the horror of the Challenger tragedy threatens to repeat itself on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Standing at ground zero, NASA engineer Jack Lundy races the countdown to prevent the deadliest space disaster of all.

While bureaucrats and businessmen publicly battle for the high ground, a young descendant of the legendary Davy Crockett secretly constructs a single-stage-to-orbit rocket deep inside an abandoned warehouse in the South Bronx. Will he and his NYU classmates survive when NORAD detects the launch that blows the lid off the greatest conspiracy in the history of mankind?

Tammy Reis -- stripped of her astronaut wings for defending herself against a congressman's zero-gravity rape -- is recruited by the National Security Agency to infiltrate the stronghold of a er-rich smuggler who schemes to place a massive space station into orbit with a single, spectacular launch. When she discovers the true nature of his secret plan, she faces an impossible choice between duty to her government or freedom from her -- and humanity's -- nightmare.

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