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Author
Index
W |
Robert
Charles Wilson |
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Title
Index
A |
A
Bridge of Years |
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| Year |
1991 |
| Publisher |
New
English
Library (Hodder
and Stoughton) |
| ISBN |
0450609588 |
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Synopsis
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Tom
Winter thought the
secluded cottage
in the pine woods
would be the
perfect refuge: a
vine-covered
sanctuary, a place
to nurse the
wounds of lost
love and
happiness.
But Tom soon
discovers that his
safe haven is the
portal of a tunnel
through
time. At one
end lies the
familiar
present. At
the other - New
York City, 1963.
Tom's journey
back through time
offers him a new
life, a new love
and the chance to
start all over
again in a
simpler, safer
world. But
then he finds that
the time-tunnel
holds a danger far
greater than
anything he left
behind: a human
killing machine,
escaped from the
bleak and brutal
future, who will
do anything to
protect the secret
passage he thought
was his
alone. Thus
Tom Winter is
forced to face the
terrors of an
unknown future to
preserve both his
worlds, past and
present .... |
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Review
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'A
marvellous blend
of adventure and
serious themes, in
a very
unconventional
story of time
travel.
Science Fiction
Chronicle
'In A Bridge
of Years there
is beauty, and
there is truth ...
Robert Charles
Wilson is a
storyteller of
astonishing
compassion and
understanding.'
Orson Scott
Card |
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Credit:
NASA
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Atlantis
Meets Mir
NASA
and the
Russian
space
agency
kicked off
a new era
in
international
space
cooperation
in June of
1995, when
the Space
Shuttle
Atlantis
docked
with the
Russian
space
station
Mir for
the first
time.
Atlantis'
mission,
STS-71,
launched
on June 27
and marked
the 100th
U.S. human
space
launch.
Together,
Atlantis
and Mir
became the
largest
combined
spacecraft
ever in
orbit,
totaling
almost a
half a
million
pounds.
For the
docking,
Shuttle
Commander
Hoot
Gibson
positioned
Atlantis
directly
below Mir,
so that
the
Earth's
gravity
naturally
braked the
orbiter's
approach
"up"
to Mir.
The final
approach
rate of
about an
inch per
minute
ended 216
nautical
miles
above
Russia's
Lake
Baykal
region,
with a
nearly
perfect
docking,
off by
less than
one inch
and one
half a
degree.
The
Shuttle-Mir
program
included
11 Space
Shuttle
flights
and 7
astronaut
residencies
on Mir,
and helped
pave the
way for
the
International
Space
Station
now in
orbit |
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