Partida Para O Espaço

TAKEOFF (1952) de Cyril M. Kornbluth. (Doubleday Science Fiction). Capa: Lima de Freitas. '-' O jovem e brilhante engenheiro Michael Novak, ao aceitar um lugar na Sociedade Americana de Voo Espacial, cai ,sem o saber, no centro de uma tempestade de intriga e violência e fica envolvido numa extraordinária série de acontecimentos que envolvem duas lindas raparigas, altas personalidades de Washington, espionagem e crime e que culminam na primeira viagem do homem à Lua!

TAKEOFF (from the book jacket) The brilliant young ceramics engineer and former government scientist, Dr. Michael Novak, stumbled into a storm center of intrigue and violence when he accepted employment with the widely derided American Society for Space Flight. By taking this job he unwittingly detonated a series of exciting events involving two beautiful women, high figures in Washington, espionage, and murder, all of which were to culminate in man's first voyage to the moon. In the desert south of Barstow, California, the A.S.F.S.F. was building a space ship, purportedly for research purposes, but as Novak commenced his assigned experiments he detected many incongruous facts about the project. He soon began to suspect that the construction of the ship was being subsidized by a foreign power, and he confided his fears to a fellow engineer. Within twenty-four hours this confidant had been killed. In the fateful days to follow, as Novak sought further to substantiate his suspicions, he unmasked a lovely spy and thwarted a gigantic political smear. And finally he risked his own life and that of the woman he loved to assure for the United States a vital first foothold in outer space'.'

[About the Author]: New York-born Cyril M. Kornbluth as been writing stories since he was ten, selling them since his teens. His creative efforts have appeared in Galaxy, Astounding Science Fiction, Future, Astonishing Stories, and Science Fiction Quarterly, among many other magazines. During World War II he served as a U. S. Army machine gunner in Belgium, France, and Germany, and wrote a novel while waiting transshipment from Europe to Japan. For three years after the war Mr. Kornbluth worked as Chicago Bureau chief of the Transradio Press Service. He is married and lives currently with his wife and small child in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he now devotes his full time to free-lance science-fiction writing.

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