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Kings of the High Frontier Hardcover – October 1, 1998

by Victor Koman (Author)

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Product details

Series: The high pilgrimage (Book 1)
Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Final Frontier; Limited edition (October 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966566203
ISBN-13: 978-0966566208
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.5 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 17 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,693,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #494020 in Books > Romance

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Jeremy, author- The Zombie Conspiracy Series

Reach for the stars

December 20, 2011

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

I love this novel. The story was so entertaining, and the more I read, the more I wanted to go into space just like the characters. It is all about private ventures into space and breaking NASA's monopoly on space exploration. I've read it several times now, and it's one of those books I will hold on to and read over and over again. I'm gonna have to buy a copy for my dad too. I'm sure he would enjoy it. One of the things I like about the story is that it is believable--even the several "wow" moments when the different character groups go to launch. When you start reading it, you won't want to put it down. This is an exciting keeper. I highly recommend it.

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Adolescent space opera with a twist

January 25, 2006

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

This novel would have fit right in on my teenage bookshelf in 1980. It has all the grittiness and technical detail of Niven, Pournelle, Pohl and Hogan, overlaid with the libertarian elements that show up in some Heinlein stories. It lacks Bester's economy of prose, but does have a tight plot. Like many authors of the golden age of SF, Koman comes off as both cynical and romantic. In real life, this story's heroes wouldn't stand a chance. (Dude! Building a spaceship is hard!) But its villains are surprisingly close to the mark. Teens and NASA employees may bristle at the NASA-bashing, but every decade that goes by with zero progress in human space flight proves the point.

4 people found this helpful5 people found this helpful

February 23, 2011

Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase

As an old sci- fi fan as well as a fan of the space program, I am hard to please. This book is amazing!

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A customer

Inspiring. The greatest SF novel in at least a decade.

February 19, 1999

Format: Hardcover

I had the privilege of being the eighth person to buy Kings of the High Frontier when it was first published in electronic form by Pulpless.com. I feel rather as if I were there when Vincent Van Gogh swept the final stroke of pigment onto Starry Night or Ayn Rand scrawled the last word of Atlas Shrugged. This book is that good. It's good on at least two levels. First, and crucially, it's a walloping great adventure story. One friend not only stayed up all night to read it, but told me she leaped to her feet and danced around the room during the book's most magnificent scene. Second, without any lecturing or heavy-handedness, this book is an important philosophical statement about free minds and free lives. Oh yeah, it's also an indictment of NASA so accurate and so fierce it's a wonder that agency hasn't crumbled to dust before Victor's rage. I can think of no book I could recommend more highly, and no recent book that has so filled my heart and my spirit. To freedom! And to space!

17 people found this helpful18 people found this helpful

One of the BEST books no one has ever read

March 13, 2001

Format: Hardcover

This is a great book. It's got everything going for it: a great plot, interesting and likable characters, important themes, and a more-than-competent narrative style. It is also a great read -- fast and fun. So why hasn't it won ALL the science fiction awards and become a nationwide bestseller? Maybe because no major book publisher would touch it. Not because it's a bad book, but because it offers up the interesting idea that the main impediment to mankind's entry into space is NASA. And it provides fascinating tidbits of news that never made it into the newspapers about how NASA really works (or doesn't), especially concerning the Challenger disaster. Sort of makes you wonder about the First Amendment, when book publishers are afraid to publish a book that's critical of the government. Anyway, if you can find a copy, GRAB IT! And if you're the kind of reader who only buys one book a year, this would be a good one to pick.

5 people found this helpful6 people found this helpful

A novel about the next step in space exploration...

February 11, 1999

Format: Hardcover

Like Mr. Koman, I've been bitterly disappointed in NASA's floundering, post-moon-program. However, Mr. Koman wrote a novel about how private people could conceivably take the next step---without the layers of bureaucracy NASA has accreted about itself, without the hysterical concern for public relations that plagues any publicly funded effort such as NASA, and taking advantages of technology that, when the Saturn V was flying, was a dream for the far future, but which is well within the reach of (somewhat) ordinary people today---just for starters, the computer I'm entering this from makes the best at NASA in the early sixties look absolutely sick. I could have used a "Guide to Spacecraft" in the back, and the book _is_ awfully long, but on the whole, I recommend it very highly. I have a signed copy, and it's going into plastic shrinkwrap to be passed down to my descendants.

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Carl Edward Mullin

Most of the most beautiful wriiten novels about space

March 28, 2002

Format: Hardcover

From the first sentence you are hooked. That's how good it is.
Victor Koman, who I have the honor to have exchanged emails with once, is a (extreemly unfairly) overlooked author of a first-rated talent. In this Kings of the High Frontier, we are introducted to wide varisty of characters who are fated to meet in one way or another in their struggle to achieve their common dream: to reach space. In his and her own way, each have to contents with powerful and bloated beast of the Federal Government and its lapdogs at NASA and national security gangesters who fears the potential of private space transportation because in space, men and women will gain access to unlimited wealth and freedom with many resources in the system waiting untapped. It's rather tough to regulate and to tax free men when a station can simply pick up and move to another location farther out, not to meation like how will you settle the issuse of which states to do the taxing. Short answer, you can't.
But to get there, you have to create a private transportation first.
That's the heart of this novel. Different people, from graduate school at NYU to internet to the dusty sands of White Sands testing ground, take the proved concepts from various sources and build their own version in the race againest time, each other, and the NASA to be the first private ship into low earth orbit. Everythng is here, ambition, passion, coruption, power struggle, friendship, joy of challenge and romance. Romance is the emotion that engerize this novel, romance of freedom, of space and of love.
If you want a book that will keep up up all night and be thrilled with the imagination and love of charcters who dared to keep their dreams alive, then brother, this is the one for you!

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