
Strange Orbit
Margaret Simpson(Author)
State University of New York Press
Published on 1. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
221 pages
978-0-7914-2630-2 (ISBN)
Description
Here is spiritual sci-fi for teens-a witty, fast-paced novel that explores the inner realms as well as the outer ones.
Fed up with life at home, Jessica Baron is selected for a trip to the moon ("I wasn't at all sure my mother would let me go, but I filled in the forms anyway.") The spaceship strangely misses its destination and hurtles onward into deep space for a mysterious voyage that transcends culture, time, and the mind itself.
Here is spiritual sci-fi at its best-a witty, fast-paced novel that explores the inner realms as well as the outer ones. The author is as much at home with astro-physics and elementary particles as she is with Western mysticism and Kashmir Shaivism.
Fed up with life at home, Jessica Baron is selected for a trip to the moon ("I wasn't at all sure my mother would let me go, but I filled in the forms anyway.") The spaceship strangely misses its destination and hurtles onward into deep space for a mysterious voyage that transcends culture, time, and the mind itself.
Here is spiritual sci-fi at its best-a witty, fast-paced novel that explores the inner realms as well as the outer ones. The author is as much at home with astro-physics and elementary particles as she is with Western mysticism and Kashmir Shaivism.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-2630-2 (9780791426302)
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Person
Margaret Simpson received a Degree in English Literature from Cambridge University. For the past twenty-five years she has earned her living as a free-lance writer, working in television, for both the BBC and for independent TV companies. She has contributed to many well-known series, has written radio plays, and has published several novels for adults and younger people as well.
Content
1. How It Started
2. Training
3. The Lull
4. Liftoff
5. Disintegration
6. Eternity
7. The Last Filling Station in Space
8. Outward Bound
9. Moon Landing
10. The Plot Thickens
2. Training
3. The Lull
4. Liftoff
5. Disintegration
6. Eternity
7. The Last Filling Station in Space
8. Outward Bound
9. Moon Landing
10. The Plot Thickens