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Burnout is an SF mystery about a Shuttle disaster that’s no accident. It has two heroes, “Crash” Murphy of the USA & Dr. Mike Anders of Australia. Murphy, an ex-Flight Director, is tapped by his government to investigate the disaster, and Anders by HIS government to study some odd signals from space.
It’s soon apparent that whatever happened to Atlantis was deliberate, and Murphy starts nosing further into the matter. When people around him start dying in “accidents,” he flees, taking what evidence he can, and looks for Anders.
Meanwhile, Anders has gotten suspicious about those signals. Their investigations dovetail, and the two men work to unravel what happened, running for their lives while wondering who they can and can’t trust.
"Hard-edged SF that wraps a compelling mystery around "this is the real thing" space science. Burnout is tight, tense, and gripping--- Osborn tells a damn good story, and tells it well."
Holly Lisle, author of The Ruby Key: Moon & Sun I.
"Burnout is a compelling, impossible to put down, first novel in the class of Skylark of Space or "Lifeline." ... It may perhaps be the most realistic view ever published in fiction about what happens behind the scenes at NASA."
Dr. Jim Woosley, Ph.D. physicist and Heinlein essayist.
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About the Author(s):
Stephanie Osborn is a former payload flight controller, a veteran of over twenty years of working in the civilian space program and military space defense programs. She has worked on numerous Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Of those she trained, one was Kalpana Chawla, a member of the crew lost in the Columbia disaster. She holds graduate/undergraduate degrees in four sciences: Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics, from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Stephanie is retired from space work. She happily "passes it forward," tutoring math and science to students in the Huntsville area, while writing science fiction mysteries based on her knowledge, experience, and travels. |
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