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Summary: Read this to encourage the publishing of a next book ....
Review: As one of the other reviewers stated this is one of the best books no one has read. I came across it in July, 2003 by chance in a small bookstore. Once I started reading I could not stop until I reached the end. It has interesting characters (and they are characters), good guys you cheer, bad guys you would like to shoot, inter-weaving storylines, an interesting story to tell, plot and subplots. The writing keeps all of the stories flowing along pulling you into the stories and along to the end of the novel. All in all a totally enjoyable read. Now some may find the libertarian ideas of the author annoying but they form an intergal part of the story and reminded me of L. Niel Smith at his best. And the conspiracy angle is well enough set up and argued that you are left thinking it makes perfect sense. Perhaps the best recomendation is that, as this was noted as book one on the High Pilgramage, I was extremely disappointed that no book two (or three) had been written. So let me conclude by suggesting you get a copy read it, tell your friends to get copies and get book two on its way for me to read!
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Summary: Definite must read...
Review: Don't let the Science Fiction category scare you away from this excellent book. The only science fiction in this book is very realistic and the story line is today's news. The author did an excellent job of weaving several story lines into a complete work where the characters where developed thoughtfully and intereacted with one another in a very believeable manner. My only complaint was that the book was not long enough and when I finished reading it was hard to pick up another book after having gotten to know the characters soo very well.
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Summary: Definite must read...
Review: Don't let the Science Fiction category scare you away from this excellent book. The only science fiction in this book is very realistic and the story line is today's news. The author did an excellent job of weaving several story lines into a complete work where the characters where developed thoughtfully and intereacted with one another in a very believeable manner. My only complaint was that the book was not long enough and when I finished reading it was hard to pick up another book after having gotten to know the characters soo very well.
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Summary: Most of the most beautiful wriiten novels about space
Review: From the first sentence you are hooked. That's how good it is. 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!
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Summary: Inspiring. The greatest SF novel in at least a decade.
Review: I had the privilege of being the eighth person to buy Kings of the High Frontier when it was first published in electronic form by Pulpless.com. I feel rather as if I were there when Vincent Van Gogh swept the final stroke of pigment onto Starry Night or Ayn Rand scrawled the last word of Atlas Shrugged. This book is that good. It's good on at least two levels. First, and crucially, it's a walloping great adventure story. One friend not only stayed up all night to read it, but told me she leaped to her feet and danced around the room during the book's most magnificent scene. Second, without any lecturing or heavy-handedness, this book is an important philosophical statement about free minds and free lives. Oh yeah, it's also an indictment of NASA so accurate and so fierce it's a wonder that agency hasn't crumbled to dust before Victor's rage. I can think of no book I could recommend more highly, and no recent book that has so filled my heart and my spirit. To freedom! And to space!
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Summary: The Dream Re-Awakened.
Review: I recieved my copy of this fantastic book less than 24 hours ago and have read it non-stop every waking moment until I finished it a few minutes ago. I recall clearly the day that man walked on the Moon, being a wide-eyed 6-year-old at the time, I knew at that time that one day, I would HAVE to go into space myself. This novel re-awakened that 30-year-old dream to be in space myself. It's characterers are intellegent and determined to not let governments be the monopolizers of the high frontier, so several groups unaware of each other's plans, at first, each begin constrution on ships that will let them break free of the Earth and it's suffocating States. Find yourself a copy... And dare to dream!
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Summary: Fountainhead's skyscraper takes off to space.
Review: If you liked Fountainhead and you like Hard Science Fiction, and you like reality, you'll love this book, it's as real & hard as SF can get. Gibbon is Toohey, etc, etc., you read, you decide. Should generate a lot of discussion. It's got to be a Nebula/Hugo winner.
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Summary: Fountainhead's skyscraper takes off to space.
Review: If you liked Fountainhead and you like Hard Science Fiction, and you like reality, you'll love this book, it's as real & hard as SF can get. Gibbon is Toohey, etc, etc., you read, you decide. Should generate a lot of discussion. It's got to be a Nebula/Hugo winner.
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Summary: Inspirational
Review: Just finished re-reading this last night. I noticed that it has a lot of derivation from Rand and Heinlein (and that's a good thing!) It's a crime that this book isn't a bestseller...it's truly inspirational.
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Summary: 5 Stars is Not Enough
Review: Kings of the High Frontier takes the reader through a wide range of emotions; from rage at the condescending arrogance of the head of the National Organization of Space Supporters in his efforts to suppress any private space launch, to an almost unbearable excitement as the ships take flight. Victor Koman reminds us of what human beings can accomplish as long as we are willing to make the effort and not give up.
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