Book Recommendation
This book was published in 2002. Yes,
twenty-four years ago. I loved it then and I still do. My second-grade teacher
introduced me to the solar system, and I was hooked on space. I’ve read scores
of astronaut stories and several space novels. Ice is my
favorite novel.
Ice is the story of
Apollo 19, which landed at the lunar south pole. (In the real space program,
Apollos 18 and 19 were canceled.) When it’s time to leave, Astronauts Gary
Lucas and Charlie Shepherd discover their engine won’t ignite, and everyone on
Earth thinks they die when their oxygen runs out. Instead, they begin an
incredible adventure.
Is it possible that in prediluvian
days, men used their intelligence to travel in space? They lived about sixteen
hundred years after creation. They lived for centuries. They were brilliant.
Maybe they traveled to other planets and created a base on the moon. All
evidence on Earth was wiped out in the flood. Do you think it’s possible?
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The story is sprinkled with famous names from NASA: Jim Irwin, Deke Slayton, Marlyn & Jim Lovell, Susan Borman, Gene Kranz. Their presence adds reality to the novel.
Preowned copies of Ice can still be found. Sadly, the author, Shane Johnson, died two years ago.
