![]() Michener has also hit on that theme, expanded on it, deepened it. But I recall that one of the characters in that naive novel said that the world is divided into two kinds of people, those who have faith in space flight and those who don't. Like most first novels, it was never published, and a good thing it wasn't. This is a novel about faith, religious faith, even though it is not a novel about religion.īack when I was a teenager I wrote a science fiction novel about the first voyage to the moon. For what Michener is really writing about is something far deeper. In typical Michener fashion, the novel examines every aspect of its subject: the men who build and fly the rockets, the women who marry them, the scientists, the politicians, the journalists, the astronauts.īut that is only on the surface. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michener's latest epic novel is the story of the American space program, from its roots in World War II to the magnificent Voyager 2 probe of the ringed planet Saturn. ![]()
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