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Space Odyssey: A Voyage to the Planets (Hardcover)

by Tim Haines (Author), Christopher Riley (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books; Film tie-in edition edition (14 Oct 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563521546
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563521549
  • Product Dimensions: 28 x 25.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 350,190 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The popular 'Walking With...' series takes on a new dimension as we move from the distant past to the far future. Here we join five astronauts who boldly go where no man or woman has gone before - exploring the planets of our solar system. The large-format, lavishly-illustrated book tells of the 10-year expedition in the astronauts' own words. It takes the reader (and TV viewer, for this accompanies a major series) down to the boiling surface of Venus where a sulphuric acid storm is rampant, and off to the far moons of Jupiter to search for life below acres of ice. Based on the latest scientific discoveries, the book reveals all we so far know of our neighbours in space, and what perils and adventures will await the first humans to visit them. A stunning book suitable for all ages. (Kirkus UK)

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It will be the greatest adventure that humans have ever embarked on. Six years in space, away from Earth, voyaging further and faster than anyone before them. Demanding the courage to face incredible dangers, it is a quest that will define new frontiers for our species. This is the story of Project Pegasus, the first manned voyage to the planets. Witness, through the eyes of the five astronaut-explorers, the extraordinary sights of our solar system: the superheated lava fields of volcanic Venus, gigantic Martian dust devils and the fragile, dark surface of a comet that disintegrates as you try to land on it. Join the crew as they chart the inhospitable landscapes of our neighbouring planets and take a death defying fly-by of the Sun to accelerate them towards the outer giant planets and the forbidding, frozen worlds of Pluto and Charon. The story is told in the team s own words. Their mission may still be fiction, but their experiences are rooted in those of the real astronauts who have already flown to another world, and lived for months in orbiting space stations. Vivid images, inspired and informed by forty years of real robotic exploration of the planets, ensure that Space Odyssey is the most accurate portrayal possible of such a voyage until the day it becomes a reality.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe doesn't live up to the TV production, 25 Nov 2004
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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The television programme was highly entertaining and seems likely to become a classic of its kind; it is already being hailed as something which will inspire the imagination and encourage a generation to see science as exciting and expansive and creative! It makes a lot of sense to buy the DVD (please see my review). But the book of the television series? I must confess, I wasn't entirely convinced at first reading.

The television series combined the latest in computer generated special effects with the latest in scientific knowledge, knitting them together with an engaging plot. Take a crew of space travellers, send them on a six year exploration of the solar system, and follow their lives and the lives of the staff of the command centre as they break new ground in exploration and scientific knowledge.

Much of the drama, the science and the wonder relied heavily on the moving image, on the ability to make the special effects look like live coverage of events unfolding before your eyes. You could believe it as a spectacle, see yourself as a television onlooker following the news broadcasts and documentaries which would inevitably accompany the space flight.

Can a book capture the same sense of immediacy, the same sense of being there, being part of history, following a bunch of strangers as they become part of your life? It took me two readings to get a sense of enjoying the book. While it parallels the television programme, the book does so in a traditional medium - the story unfolds in the diaries of the participants, interspaced with factual clips, details of the history of space exploration, descriptions of the planets and the technology. It's a good, entertaining, and educational read.

But what holds the book together are the photographs and illustrations. They really are outstanding. It's the sort of book you would leave on your coffee table, or bedside cabinet, or wherever, to pick up now and again and admire. The imagery, the imagination, the whole visual impact is outstanding.

If your kids are captured by the televisuals and the still pictures, maybe this is another way to encourage them to read, to appreciate that a good narrative and a sense of adventure can be conveyed by the written word, not just by computer graphics. Maybe it's one way to convince them - or yourself - that it is possible to read about science and still be 'cool', or at least not bored rigid. At £12, the book is competitively priced and excellent value ... but I'd still buy the DVD first.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Fantastic!, 29 Jan 2007
By Barbara Maldfeld (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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A Great Book on Space for the whole family and really accessible to all readers wanting to learn more about the secrets of the Universe. Top marks for a really well put together book which goes perfectly with the TV series. My kids got both books and DVD for Christmas and are now space mad.... anything that distracts them from Computers or i-pods is fine by me.
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