Nominee · Locus Awards 1997
Abandon in Place
by Jerry Oltion
1996 novella by Jerry Oltion
The morning after Neil Armstrong's funeral, a ghostly Saturn V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. It shakes the ground and rumbles with all the fury of a real launch, sending back telemetry all the way to the moon, stopping at the point where a human would have to take control to land. NASA is shocked when this ghost launch becomes a monthly experience. When humanity loses interest, the rocket becomes near invisible. When we pay attention, Jerry Oltion's expanded Nebula Award-winning novella shows us that reality is what we make of it. [Amazon]
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- science fiction
- Pages
- 374
- ISBN
- 9780312873165
- Subjects
- Rockets (Aeronautics), Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, general
Locus Awards 1997
See all →A Game of Thrones
WinnerBellwether
WinnerBlue Mars
WinnerDesperation
WinnerGone
WinnerMountain Ways
WinnerReclamation
WinnerThe Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirteenth Annual Collection
WinnerWhiteout
WinnerA Crown of Swords
A Dry, Quiet War
A Silurian Tale
After a Lean Winter
Age of Aquarius
All One Universe
Amends
American Gothic Tales
Ancient Echoes
Appointment in Sinai
At the City Limits of Fate
More by Jerry Oltion
Every prize →Other Locus Awards winners
All years →Death of the Author
WinnerIn My Country
WinnerOn the Calculation of Volume III
WinnerSour Cherry
WinnerStarstrike
WinnerThe Buffalo Hunter Hunter
WinnerThe Everlasting
WinnerThe River Has Roots
WinnerWe Begin Where Infinity Ends
WinnerWe Will Rise Again
WinnerA Sorceress Comes to Call
WinnerBury Your Gays
WinnerBy Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars
WinnerLake of Souls
WinnerMoonstorm
WinnerSomeone You Can Build a Nest In
WinnerThe Black Girl Survives in This One
WinnerThe Man Who Saw Seconds
WinnerWhat Feasts at Night
WinnerWhy Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole
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