Tells the story of a Frenchman and two well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.
When the other kids make fun of Louie and call his father the junkman, his dad explains that the socalled junk he loves can take you right out of this worldwith a little imagination. So Louie builds the spaceship Imagination I and blasts off into his own space odyssey.
In this sequel to "Foreigner", Bren Cameron once again falls foul of the cultural differences between humanity and the Atevi, but this time he seems to have no backing from his own people. Then the spaceship which marooned the human colony 200 years previously returns.
Sphere
Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton is possibly the best science teacher for the masses since H.G. Wells, and
Sphere, his thriller about a mysterious spherical spaceship at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, is classic Crichton.
