Red Moon [Paperback]

Michael Cassutt (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Books; proof edition (2001)
• ASIN: B000MVME8S
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Michael Cassutt has published fiction (six novels, thirty short stories) and non-fiction (five books, all in the field of human spaceflight, and over two hundred articles). He is also an accomplished television writer and producer, with credits on such series as THE TWILIGHT ZONE, EERIE, INDIANA, and THE DEAD ZONE.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch job, April 14, 2003

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T Galazka (no longer NYC, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Moon (Paperback)

I was actually surprised - the only notion I'd had before of Mr. Cassutt's work was that he co-edited a so-so SF anthology "Sacred Visions" (his story was okay, but not the best one in the collection), and here he hits me with an awesome book. Truly - hats off, stand up and applaud. And it wasn't only that the story he presented was an engrossing, detailed and pleasing one - though this is a model thriller per se and should serve as a yardstick for the guys who think they can write. No, I was impressed by something else, something that an American author doesn't pull off all that often. The reality of being Russian in those days. Rybko is so real I was strongly tempted to believe in his existence, warts and all. At once fairly intelligent and helpless in coping with Soviet multi-layered reality, with plots within plots and official smokescreens at every step, with family secrets even more sinister, he just pulled me into the book and didn't let go until the last page. A pity there's no six-star award...

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping Space Thriller, February 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Moon (Hardcover)

Michael Cassutt, who penned an earlier murder mystery set within the NASA family (Missing Man), does an excellent job of pulling the reader into the shadowy world of the Russian space program. He adds verisimilitude to the story by using historical figures (Yuri Gagarin, etc.) as central characters (he's obviously done his homework) but keeps the plotting fast-paced. His background in TV/movies (Max Headroom among others) serves him well in evoking visual images through the written word. Some might wonder if today's reader wants to learn more about dead Soviet space pioneers, but then you could've said the same about Apollo 13.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational new techno-thriller, March 14, 2001

By 

Colin Burgess (Sydney, AUSTRALIA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Moon (Hardcover)

I thought that Cassutt's "Missing Man" was a superb book, but his latest venture into the mysterious and covert world of cosmonautics is simply without peer. I've been following spaceflight history for many years now, and I can see how the author (a renowned authority on the subject) has interwoven a fictional thriller story into the largely-unrevealed world of the Russian space program of the 1960's. Without spoiling the plot, the central focus is on the alleged murder of Russia's Sergei Korolev, the real-life "Chief Designer" of that nation's space program, whose reluctant anonymity only came to an end with his death on an operating table. Without him at the helm, Russia's space program fell apart, and America reached the Moon first. Because it is based very much on fact, this book is quite astonishing reading, and it is very obvious that Cassutt has done some deep and extensive research in putting together his book. There are many surprises stitched into the story, and it has proved to be a real page-turner for me. One of the best techno-thrillers for many years, in my humble opinion.