Back to the Moon » (Abridged)

Homer H. Hickam, Jr., was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. The author of Torpedo Junction, a Military History Book of the Month Club selection, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American History Illustrated, he is a NASA payload training manager for the International Space Program and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.

The NASA engineer whose memoir, Rocket Boys, inspired Universal Pictures' acclaimed "October Sky" marks his fiction debut with the audacious Back to the Moon. A thriller and a beach read if there ever was one, Homer Hickam's hefty adventure novel straps us in for an exhilarating, no-holds-barred ride as a renegade astronaut points the space shuttle Columbia in the direction of Earth's mysterious, solitary neighbor.

The New York Times Book Review \ \ \ \ \ \ - Anita Gates

[Hickham's] boyish, eager idealism is showing again in his first try at fiction, and it's charmingly contagious..... [O]ne of the strengths of this readable, diverting novel is that the reader isn't absolutely sure who's good and who's bad until very near the end....Hickam is also adept at false scares...and nifty plot twists....This is not great literature, but it is about great dreams. Being reminded of them is a little like revisiting the New Frontier.