And announces his fall book tour.

Google, and the implacable Dave Leibman assured me otherwise.

Sometimes writing a novel can feel like hunting in a dismal swamp for a python that might not exist.

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Also, this image was so evocative, in particular of mud.

Germany in spring 1945 was an empire of mud.

D in electrical engineering, recruited to NASA by Nichelle Lt. Uhura Nicholls.

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My protagonist has a kind of intellectual crush on her.

Capture of Wernher von Braun, May 2, 1945

This guy.

He was a monster, but look at him!

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The skull of a horse makes a brief appearance inMoonglow, on a memorable Halloween in 1952.

That sinister and comic Tim Burton-ish leer!

One of five possessions chosen by my protagonist to accompany him on his final journey to Oakland, California.

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InMoonglowthe scale model ofChallengerseen at bottom left is my protagonists handiwork.

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Modern Mechanix Publishing Co.

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Topps

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