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FROM: C Gertz <cgertz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 9:49 PM

Dear Everyone,

I cannot remember if someone has posted a similar question, nor did I find
a matching booklist: we have a patron who has just finished reading "Blood
Moon" by Sharman Divono and Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" and she is looking
for similar books about emergencies in space, either fiction or
non-fiction, prefereably restricted to the new future or in the recent
past.

I would like to thank everyone in advance for their suggestions.

Christine Gertz
Strathcona County Library
cgertz@ualberta.ca

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 2/13/01, 7:45 AM

In a message dated 2/12/2001 10:38:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cgertz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca writes:

<<
I cannot remember if someone has posted a similar question, nor did I find
a matching booklist: we have a patron who has just finished reading "Blood
Moon" by Sharman Divono and Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" and she is looking
for similar books about emergencies in space, either fiction or
non-fiction, prefereably restricted to the new future or in the recent
past.

I would like to thank everyone in advance for their suggestions.

Christine Gertz
Strathcona County Library
cgertz@ualberta.ca >>

Failure Is Not an Option : Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and
Beyond
by Gene Kranz (He was mission controller for that mission.)

Apollo 13, by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger (This is the book the hugely
successful movie with Tom Hanks was based on.)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Cathy Reid <creid@ccpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 7:56 AM

How about 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke? I've never read the
book, but have seen the movie and I'd think it qualifies for a space
emergency!

Cathy Reid
Clark County Public Library
Springfield, OH

FROM: "Marsha Valance " <Mvalan@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 12:58 PM

Dean Ing's THE BIG LIFTERS and THE RANSOM OF BLACK STEALTH ONE are novels which take place in space.
Astronaut Jim Lovell wrote about his Apollo 13 adventure in LOST MOON.
Jack McDevitt's MOONFALL and Arthur C. Clarke's A FALL OF MOONDUST are both excellent. Both are set in the near furure, on the moon's surface.
HTH,

Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<mvalan@mpl.org>

>>> cgertz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca 02/12/01 09:34PM >>>

Dear Everyone,

I cannot remember if someone has posted a similar question, nor did I find
a matching booklist: we have a patron who has just finished reading "Blood
Moon" by Sharman Divono and Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" and she is looking
for similar books about emergencies in space, either fiction or
non-fiction, prefereably restricted to the new future or in the recent
past.

I would like to thank everyone in advance for their suggestions.

Christine Gertz
Strathcona County Library
cgertz@ualberta.ca

FROM: "Bonnie Zeitlin" <bzeitlin@webrary.org>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 1:09 PM

"Back to the Moon," by Homer Hickam, Jr. (the author of "Rocket Boys") was
an exciting read.

Bonnie Zeitlin
Reference Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
bzeitlin@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

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>From: C Gertz <cgertz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Space Emergencies
>Date: Mon, Feb 12, 2001, 9:34 PM
>

>
> Dear Everyone,
>
> I cannot remember if someone has posted a similar question, nor did I find
> a matching booklist: we have a patron who has just finished reading "Blood
> Moon" by Sharman Divono and Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" and she is looking
> for similar books about emergencies in space, either fiction or
> non-fiction, prefereably restricted to the new future or in the recent
> past.
>
> I would like to thank everyone in advance for their suggestions.
>
> Christine Gertz
> Strathcona County Library
> cgertz@ualberta.ca

FROM: Cindy McCormack <cmccorma@mail.win.org>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 1:19 PM

Homer Hickam wrote "Return to the Moon." It's sci-fi about a group that
highjacks the space shuttle and they have several disasters onboard.


Cindy McCormack
St. Charles City-County Library District
Corporate Parkway Branch
St. Charles, MO.

FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <bwaznili@sdcl.org>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 2:01 PM

Would you be willing to compile this for the list? I'm looking for more
stock for our "Survivors!" display, and this would fit in. I have the two
booklists from Fiction -L, Natural Disaster Fiction, and Simply Survival,
but I feel I may need more. Thanks in advance.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

Subject: Space Emergencies
From: "C Gertz" <cgertz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:34:54 -0700 (MST)

I cannot remember if someone has posted a similar question, nor did I find
a matching booklist: we have a patron who has just finished reading "Blood
Moon" by Sharman Divono and Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" and she is looking
for similar books about emergencies in space, either fiction or
non-fiction, prefereably restricted to the new future or in the recent
past.

I would like to thank everyone in advance for their suggestions.

Christine Gertz
Strathcona County Library
cgertz@ualberta.ca

FROM: "Renee Zurn" <rzurn@duluth.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 8:04 PM

James White has a series set in a space hospital, the Sector General books. They are not quite like the ones you mentioned but your patron may find them interesting. A few of them have people from the space hospital going to unknown planets to help with a plaque or unknown disease.

Renee Zurn
Duluth Public Library
520 W. Superior St.
Duluth MN 55802

>>> cgertz@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca 02/12/01 09:34PM >>>

Dear Everyone,

I cannot remember if someone has posted a similar question, nor did I find
a matching booklist: we have a patron who has just finished reading "Blood
Moon" by Sharman Divono and Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" and she is looking
for similar books about emergencies in space, either fiction or
non-fiction, prefereably restricted to the new future or in the recent
past.

I would like to thank everyone in advance for their suggestions.

Christine Gertz
Strathcona County Library
cgertz@ualberta.ca

FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/14/01, 8:03 AM

Of course there's Martin Caidin's "Marooned."

On a humorous note, possibly Poul Anderson's "The Makeshift Rocket," aka "A
Bicycle Built for Brew."
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