Strange Orbit

By Margaret Simpson

Subjects: Fiction
Paperback : 9780791426302, 221 pages, September 1995
Hardcover : 9780791426296, 221 pages, July 1995

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Table of contents

1. How It Started

2. Training

3. The Lull

4. Liftoff

5. Disintegration

6. Eternity

7. The Last Filling Station in Space

8. Outward Bound

9. Moon Landing

10. The Plot Thickens

Here is spiritual sci-fi for teens--a witty, fast-paced novel that explores the inner realms as well as the outer ones.

Description

Fed up with life at home, Jessica Baron is selected for a trip to the moon ("I wasn't at all sure my mother would let me go, but I filled in the forms anyway. ") The spaceship strangely misses its destination and hurtles onward into deep space for a mysterious voyage that transcends culture, time, and the mind itself.

Here is spiritual sci-fi at its best—a witty, fast-paced novel that explores the inner realms as well as the outer ones. The author is as much at home with astro-physics and elementary particles as she is with Western mysticism and Kashmir Shaivism.

Margaret Simpson received a Degree in English Literature from Cambridge University. For the past twenty-five years she has earned her living as a free-lance writer, working in television, for both the BBC and for independent TV companies. She has contributed to many well-known series, has written radio plays, and has published several novels for adults and younger people as well.