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Marooned Mass Market Paperback – December 1, 1969

by Martin Caidin (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
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Source for exciting movie of the same name, starring Gregory Peck.
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    308 pages
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  3. Publisher
    Bantam Books
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    December 1, 1969
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000VO2MHO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam Books; 4th Printing edition (December 1, 1969)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Customer Reviews:
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Ronald G Purviance
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this movie
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2015
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Martin Caidin was a master with the techno-thriller before techno-thrillers were a genre. I love this movie, and this update of his original novel updates the story to match the film. And it adds tons of details not shown in the motion picture.
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bitflip
5.0 out of 5 stars Close to the real thing
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2004
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This book come close to how the real US space program works.

It's has sufficient detail to make it close. Good story.

Cheers!

Formar Space Shuttle Project Manager
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mathyou9
4.0 out of 5 stars Starts out slow, but great, nonetheless.
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2015
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[1969 edition]
The book was great! I loved the story and all technical details. It starts out pretty slow, though. The first 2/3 of the book was basically this:

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The Ironman One astronauts are marooned in orbit due to a malfunctioning spacecraft. Here, have a flashback to Pruett's childhood.

Next chapter:
The Ironman One astronauts are marooned in orbit due to a malfunctioning spacecraft. Here, have a flashback to Pruett's teen years.

Next chapter:
The Ironman One astronauts are marooned in orbit due to a malfunctioning spacecraft. Here, have a flashback to Pruett's 20-something years.

Etc. etc.

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The flashbacks, of course, are there for character development. The background info. the flashbacks provide is great and highly technically detailed (i.e., the flashbacks cover his career as a pilot-turned-test-pilot-turned-astronaut.) If you're not a fan of that, the book might be too slow for you. Once you get past that, the story picks up the pace and you won't be able to put the book down.
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Maurice R. Slaney
3.0 out of 5 stars Paper Back arrived in good condition. As of now I'm a bit too ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2017
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Paper Back arrived in good condition. As of now I'm a bit
too busy to get started. Like Martin Caiden's past books.
Last Dogfight and other WWII titles.
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Flyguywayout
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018
Excellent book...and a good movie...from a top notch author!
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Phil Geusz
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff!
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2014
A solid SF work of space-race vintage. Made into an excellent movie.
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bmcarmody
4.0 out of 5 stars Marooned - 1969 version
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2011
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Caiden's Marooned is a case where three astronauts on a vehicle that looks like Skylab (1974-1975) get marooned in space when the Apollo's SPS engine does not fire and brings them back to earth. The ins and outs of the US space program are a backdrop to the novel.

Marooned 1969 is the 2nd with this name. The first, written in 1964, concerned a marooned Mercury astronaut whose retro rockets failed to fire. Caiden then describes the US effort (via a Gemini spacecraft) and the Russian (via a Vostok) to rescue him. The 1969 book updates the hardware and concepts very accurately and with amazing foresight.

Caiden is one of the first writers to take current hardward and concepts and write fiction to it...very realistic with novels easy to read. I have to beleive that Tom Clancy took a page out of Caiden's books.

I highly recommend the book. If you are a fan of the US space effort, this is like eating ice cream. Fun read!
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Tom Austin
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent service from Amazon- got my book today - before the deadline!
Reviewed in Canada on March 12, 2019
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This book caught my eye back in the sixties. Bought a movie tie-in edition before the film came out. Now I have a newer copy. This is the second time I've dealt with World of Books. Excellent service.
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Kavin Robert
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2019
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Athough written before Apollo 13 ran into big trouble.
The film went on general release in mid 1970. When it happened. I saw at chelmsford. It was quite good.
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Kevin A. Lazenby
5.0 out of 5 stars fact verses art
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2013
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As much as this book, and film, were made in the late 1960's, it reads very well, showing real tension and drama in a story of an accident in space. It is a touch of irony, that shortly after the film came out, it happened in real life, with Apollo 13. A classic case of life copying art.
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J. T. Hoeg
3.0 out of 5 stars Technically correct and a good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2018
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There are few novels that actually concern the real space program such as Gemini, Apollo, STS or the Russian missions. So there is not so much to comparae with. Caidin has written an exciting story - as one would expect from him. For one who first saw the movie dramatization a couple of months after the Apollo 13 mission this novel/movie was especially impressive. In those days the Skylab mission was still called Apollo Applications Project and still into the future. In the introduction Caidin writes that astronaut Wally Schirra found only a single formal technical error in the novel and I believe that. Some things things, though, to quibble with is firstly the near psycological breakdown of one of the astronauts even before the SPS engine malfunctions. Considering Apollo 13, well it is possible, but one kind of doubts it.
Another little critique concerns the rescue craft modelled on one of the NASA/USAF series of lifting bodies that eventually led to the Space Shuttle. While this craft could have been launched by a Titan 3 I seriously doubt whether there was any technique for equipping it with a thermal protective cover that would allow a lifting body type reentry. After all, the development of silicon tiles and reinforced carbon carbon protectives was one of the major hurdles in the STS program.
Finally, I find the events concerning the Press versus NASA around the spacecraft problems quite unconvincing. This story was of course written befrore the APOLLO 13 mission and there we saw that NASA was very open to what went on. May be not in all details but at least there was no attempt, and probably relaly no chance, to hide the graveness of the situation.
One thing I particularly like is the detailed story of astronaut Pruett's career into pilot, fighter pilot and astronaut. The technical details here mix with the story in a nice way.
Will I read this novel twice? This is normally my tester for "high scores" and the answer here is NO! In this respects "Marooned" falls short of e.g. other technically detailed "clifhangers" such as CAIDIN's own "The final countdown" (two reads by me) and not least Arthur Hailey's "AIRPORT" which I have re-read several times and will again.
But never mind. It is a compelling story for those that like both space drama and the fine technical details of the missions. I enjoyed reading it but it is NOT a "cannot put down" book such as Airport or The Final Countdown. And this comes from an addicted space exploration enthusiast :-)
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