Brian Lecomber’s recent death (he died on 24 September 2015, at the age of 70), prompted me to pull his three novels out of the attic and read them again. He was first and foremost an aerobatic pilot, most recently known for his Firebird Aerobatics display team. Here he is in action with John Taylor: … Continue reading Brian Lecomber: Three Novels
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Martin Caidin: Marooned
Not a series of novels, but two rather different novels, by the same author and with the same title, written five years apart. Martin Caidin (first) wrote Marooned in 1964. The novel concerned the fate of an astronaut trapped in orbit by the failure of the retro-pack on his Mercury spacecraft. I encountered it in … Continue reading Martin Caidin: Marooned