Shane Kuhn

A human story. An attention-grabbing tale of space travel, NASA, female astronaut leadership, human relationships, and space disaster. The story unfolds with crises in the current storyline, while the back story is told in flashback memories of our female astronaut commander. Descriptive and full of the vagaries of human nature and mechanical disruptions, Across the Void pulls the reader in for a trip into space, while looking at the past. The continuing crises provides opportunities for positive and negative actions of the people involved to increase the suspense of the travel. All the while the heroine works on the issues as she recovers her memories, one dream at a time. Recommended to all libraries with Sci-Fi collections.
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On the cover f this book it says it is a thriller. Nothing could be further from the truth! This book is mildly entertaining, but as many others who have read the book have pointed out it reads more like a movie screen play, the type of movie made I. The late 60's or early 70's and exclusively shown at a drive in, in other words, schlock. The story never really goes anywhere, similar to many of the chapters in a Tim Dorsey Serge and Coleman adventure, but nowhere near as funny.
This was another book that received quite a bit of hype, and as it turns out the hype was unjustified.… (mais)

I think the idea for this book was really interesting. The execution (so to speak) worked pretty well, although I found myself skipping over the details of the fight scenes toward the end.

I kept thinking that it reminded me of a cross between Grosse Pointe Blank and Burn Notice (or maybe Covert Affairs, which makes sense because the author is a screenwriter.

I liked the way the main character changed during the book. The first person narration made it easier to see that his image of himself shifted as the story progressed. Often, books like this don't feature character development, so that's definitely a plus.

Overall, worth a look. It's really a 3.5 star book.… (mais)