Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1128831 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Customer Reviews

ATale of Space Exploration in an Alternate History
Children of Apollo is a story of high adventure and low intrigue. Its premise is very simple. What if, instead of truncating the Apollo Program in the early 1970s, President Nixon had continued it? What if the promise of Apollo, which included space stations, lunar bases, and expeditions to the planets, had been fullfilled? That's the background to the story of Children of Apollo. The story is inhabited by full blooded people, some of whom dream of exploring the stars, some of whom would stop those dreams by any means necessary. From political intrigue and heart stopping espionoge, to the excitement of space missions which never were, the story holds one's attention like a vise. Step by step, Children of Apollo hurtles to an awesome climax at the Lunar South Pole, where the fate of the crew of Apollo 23, the furture of space exploration, and the world hang in the balance.

Alternate History
I didn't like the book.

Characters are shallow, since every event in the book is used to prompote the story and none to define them better. Story is linear. Too much linear. I figured out the end of the book about at half, since as I have said everything is used to promote the story that's easy.

There is no feeling being in the seventies. Again since everything is used to promote only the main plot there is nothing left to make setting believable.

The frequent repeat of certain words like "hitherto" and "good-natured laughter" which must be written about twenty times each, is at least strange.

Last thing is the propaganda. Democrats and left are bad -main evil character is a Democrat and rest of the left is either stupid of fanatic- religion is good -all main characters are believers and there is plenty of irony on atheists- US government and Nixon in particular knows best and the list goes on and on.

[...] euros best spent in other books.