Title V-S day : a novel of alternate history / Allen Steele.

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New York : Ace Hardcover, 2014.

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Location	Call No.	Status
New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction	FIC STEELE, A	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	SF STEELE, A.	Check Shelf
Southington Library - Adult	F STEELE	Check Shelf
Wethersfield Public Library - Science Fiction	SCI FI STEELE	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308).
Summary	"With a gift for visionary fiction that "would make Robert A. Heinlein proud" (Entertainment Weekly), three-time Hugo Award-winning author Allen Steele now imagines an alternate history rooted in an actual historical possibility: What if the race to space had occurred in the early days of World War II? It's 1941, and Wernher von Braun is ordered by his fuhrer to abandon the V-2 rocket and turn German resources in a daring new direction: construction of a manned orbital spacecraft capable of attacking the United States. Work on the rocket--called Silvervogel--begins at Peenemunde. Though the plan is top secret, British intelligence discovers it and brings word to Franklin Roosevelt. The American president determines that there is only one logical response: The United States must build a spacecraft with the ability to intercept Silvervogel and destroy it. Robert Goddard, inventor of the liquid-fuel rocket, agrees to head the classified project. So begins a race against time between two secret military programs and two brilliant scientists whose high-stakes competition will spiral into a deadly game of political intrigue and unforeseen catastrophes played to the death in the brutal skies above America"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	Space race -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	Scientists -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Science -- Fiction.
	FICTION -- Science Fiction -- Adventure.
	FICTION -- Science Fiction -- General.
	Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
	Scientists. (OCoLC)fst01108895
	Space race. (OCoLC)fst01127802
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Science fiction.
	Science fiction.
ISBN	9780425259740 (hardback)
	0425259749 (hardback)

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