The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Fredric Brown
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—extrapolatory
- Time of Work: 1997-2001
- Setting: San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; and Washington, D.C.
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Twenty-first century, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Washington, D.C., San Francisco, 1990’s, Jupiter
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, CA
The Plot
The Lights in the Sky Are Stars was the second science- fiction novel by Fredric Brown, an author primarily known for his mysteries. The story is set near the opening of the twenty-first century; it concerns the launch of the first spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter and the political scheming that makes that launch possible.
The protagonist is fifty-seven-year-old Max Andrews, a former astronaut with an artificial leg who works as a rocket mechanic. He travels to San Francisco to be near the Treasure Island Rocket Base, where he has worked before, and...
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