Sunward Passage Harold McAlister
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Walker Ransom, a forty-ish astronomer who lost his young wife in a car accident while still in graduate school, teaches at a small college in western North Carolina and lives with his Airedale terrier in a cabin on Clickrattle Creek. A specialist in the study of comets, he is plucked off the mountainous summit of Kitt Peak Observatory in southwest Arizona in the middle of a miserably unsuccessful observing run and taken under protective custody by uniformed troops to Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. He learns that an old colleague of his in the former East Germany, Joachim Schmidtler, has been found under the red light of a darkroom nearly afloat in a black pool of his own blood. Schmidtler’s dying words to his wife caution her to protect the “secret library” and warn that only one astronomer – Walker Ransom – can now “determine the elements.”
Ransom embarks on a two-week chase against time to decipher Schmidtler's cryptic words only to come full circle back to his own scientific quest. With the assistance of Kitt Peak staffers Alyssa Kennedy and Paul Collins and pseudo-cowboy Duke Wayne, Ransom's team sniffs out leads in Germany that eventually take them to the Big Island of Hawaii where all the pieces of the puzzle come together under potentially apocalyptic circumstances.
This is a scientific thriller that deals with the international politics, ethics, and fanatical religious aspects surrounding the potential civilization-altering impact by an astronomical body with the Earth.
The author is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Georgia State University where he founded and directs the Center for High Angular Resolutions Astronomy, which operates the world's highest resolution telescope - the CHARA Array - on Mount Wilson, California. McAlister also serves as director of historic Mount Wilson Observatory. He is the author of Diary of a Fire, which recalls the weeks in August and September 2009 during which Mount Wilson was threatened by the Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest.
Sunward Passage Harold McAlister
It is pretty-rare these days to find realistic science coming out of the entertainment industry. But if course if the author is not only a gifted and entertaining writer but also a accomplished astrophysicist, it really is possible! Of course Carl Sagan was also a talented storyteller and respected scientist so it isn't unheard of.Being rather familiar with both Kitt Peak and the Big Island of Hawaii, I was able to add an extra-dimension of personal experience to the fast-paced story. With a couple of small exceptions because it is a fictional story after all, The author's descriptions and details of these locations is spot-on and entertaining.
And for those who are curious, my experience as a professional engineer who works on observatories for a living tells me that his passing factoids on astronomy, physics and the procedures, operations and malfunctions of major telescopes and observatories are accurate and informative.
The description of the surrealistic night scene during the story climax was so well-done that I now have a permanent mental image of it that I will carry around for a long time.
Good job, Dr. McAlister!
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Sunward Passage Harold McAlister Reviews
I thoroughly enjoyed the mix of science, romance, intrigue,and suspense that this book delivered.
It is also very timely because the issue of collisions by our spaceship Earth and the multitude of
orbiting rocks and snowballs is in the 1000's. This book contains even a look at this potential
collision from an international political view as well. I would heartily recommend this to anyone that
enjoys a suspenseful read mixed with some real science.
Ok, up front, you have to suspend disbelief a bit on the motives of the bad guys here. That said, the story is a fun one, with a lot of action, and several surprises along the way. I enjoyed the book, and hope that Mr. McAlister will continue to write more fiction.
A fun mix of Science, - this author has really done the research by his personal career involvement; I found the ring of authenticity in the operational details of astronomy very satisfying. I was really impressed by the climax scene - surprising, brilliant imagery, well written.
Dr. McAlister speaks well, bringing an ingenious creativity into conjunction with current topics of real science.
Highly recommended for value and interest,
enjoyment and entertainment return-on-investment.
If you have found this book and read this far, buy the book.
This book kept me engaged from start to finish even though I know nothing about astronomy. Interesting characters and plot twist. My husband also found this book to be very riveting. Excellent book! Highly recommend!
It is nice to read a sci-fi book where the sci is not fiction. It is. A sad state of our government to not trying to look for things that will fall from the sky and send us back to the stone age. The pacer of the story is fast and all of the plot pieces fit together nicely. You don't have to suspend reality to believe this could really happen to us.
This was an enjoyable novel which moved along very nicely. It really never got boring at any point - and that is a bit unusual.
As someone with a little understanding of the science (note I said a little, not a lot) it was refreshing not to see glaring scientific problems in such a novel.
But on the critical side?
It would have benefited from a really good editor. There were some really simple spelling issues and such which should have been fixed.
There were places in which things got rather unnecessarily awkward and the political, interagency, tactical, and administrative stuff got rather messed up at times.
In the end it felt unnecessarily agendized. That I tend to share the author's agenda is beside the point, it detracted overly much from the story and from the realism.
It is beginning to sound like I didn't like the book, but I did. It was nicely paced and a good read. I hope to see (and read) more from the good doctor.
This is sort of a science / espionage / government thriller. Like Andy Weir's book "The Martian" this novel is only classified as science fiction because it's fiction and it has a lot of science in it. In this instance, the book's main character is an astronomer who is on the trail of a comet whose orbit may intersect the earth's at an (ahem) inopportune time. McAlister has a clear, straightforward writing style. His characters are clearly drawn; although they are mostly secondary to the plot -- in other words it's more of a plot-driven story than a character-driven story.
Also, I thought the book was well edited, which is something we didn't used to need mention. Alas, one can no longer assume that writers actually write sentences or use words in ways consistent with their meanings. Happily, McAlister does both well.
It is pretty-rare these days to find realistic science coming out of the entertainment industry. But if course if the author is not only a gifted and entertaining writer but also a accomplished astrophysicist, it really is possible! Of course Carl Sagan was also a talented storyteller and respected scientist so it isn't unheard of.
Being rather familiar with both Kitt Peak and the Big Island of Hawaii, I was able to add an extra-dimension of personal experience to the fast-paced story. With a couple of small exceptions because it is a fictional story after all, The author's descriptions and details of these locations is spot-on and entertaining.
And for those who are curious, my experience as a professional engineer who works on observatories for a living tells me that his passing factoids on astronomy, physics and the procedures, operations and malfunctions of major telescopes and observatories are accurate and informative.
The description of the surrealistic night scene during the story climax was so well-done that I now have a permanent mental image of it that I will carry around for a long time.
Good job, Dr. McAlister!
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