Customer Reviews

Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight

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This is a great read for anyone interested in innovative and technically feasible methods of unconventional space propulsion. Dr. Bolonkin discusses his non traditional and yet technically feasible ideas in great detail and insight. He is truly one of the most brilliant scientists in this as well as numerous other fields. I had the privilege of reading his personal manuscript for this book for free as I have had the fortune to be acquainted with Dr. Bolonkin for many years. I agree that this book is a bit pricey. As with most of his books Dr. Bolonkin mostly does not profit from his publications and there are many freely available on the internet. He is truly committed to his work as well as sharing of his vast knowledge and innovative ideas with th world. The high price of the book is due to limited number of copies printed which is inversely proportional to the print volume. As this book is targeted for a specific audience and as a textbook the costs for the editor to publish it may end up being more than the profits earned from the sales. I know Dr. Bolonkin personally and that he would gladly be willing to distribute his works to a wider audience at a lower cost if it was up to him. I can try to suggest other methods of publishing to him(such as an e-publishing) which would definitely lower the cost of his books but I assume that depends on his contractual obligations to the publisher in regards to books already in print such as this one. I will speak with him about this and his other books and publications as well and see if there is anything we can do to bring his work to more people at a more reasonable price and post a reply as to what we can come up with. In the mean time try searching "Alexander Bolonkin" to find many more articles and publications many of which are available for free.

This book is well worth the read. It provides detailed analysis of concepts of most of the space launch ideas I had heard of and a great many I had not.

Two hundred forty dollars.

I'd really love to read this book, to gain knowledge from it, to learn from it, to congratulate the author for his hard work and the publisher for their backing of the project. I'd really like to be able to support the author and the publisher of this book.

But the price is just too much, even used copies. And no one is reviewing it... because no one is buying it, I guess.

My state's libraries don't carry it. When I asked my local why, they said the price vs. requests.

Author, Publisher please. If you make a book isn't the point for it to be read ... by at least some group of people who may be able to take it and run with its ideas straight to Congress?

Even getting it down to a hundred is at least in the realm of the realistic.

Until there's proof to the contrary, the book must be terrible because all we have to judge it by is the terrible price.