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Blurb: “EVERY NINETY MINUTES THEY WERE A TARGET FOR THE REDS
The United States was tossing the parts of Project Spacehive into orbit like bits of a jigsaw puzzle, and then orbiting astronauts to fit the pieces together and make the first spaceship. It wasn't science-fiction - just putting into operation a scheme that had been on the drawing boards since the first firings at Cape Canaveral.
But while they'd figured the mechanics involved, they hadn't counted on an unexpected problem —how do you get any work done when you're a sitting duck every ninety minutes for Russian rocket snipers?”
JEFF SUTTON'S background includes journalism, technical writing (specializing in flight safety), human enginering and communications in the aviation and missile industry.
He lives with his wife and children in El Cajon, Cali-fornia.
In consequence of his close association with the actual modern industry of space flight and space technology, his novels, though taking place in the very near future, cannot be called science-fiction so much as they should be termed "novels of space science." Along with Jeff Sutton's two previous Ace Books, FIRST ON THE MOON (D-327) and BOMBS IN ORBIT (D-377), SPACEHIVE is therefore a progenitor of a new type of modern fiction, a realistic rendition of today's space frontier.
Sutton says of this: "Men are looking skyward: the dawn of manned space flight is near. Men are being trained; hardware is being readied-the Big Nations of the world are in a grim race. The future depends upon the winner; the time is near."