| View Larger Image | Ice | Paperbackby Shane Johnson (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | WaterBrook Press | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 416 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 16, 2002 | | Sales Rank: | 105,542th |
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Product Description
In the late 1960s, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that never materialized. Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA’s space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar Prospector. Now, author and Apollo missions historian Shane Johnson explores the fantastic possibilities of what might have transpired, had the more ambitious version of the Apollo program gone forward as originally planned. It is February, 1975. Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar missions, has successfully landed. Exhilarated and confident, Commander Gary Lucas and Lunar Module pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression at the lunar south pole.There, in the icy darkness–where temperatures reach 334 degrees below zero–the astronauts search for the fragments of crystalline bedrock the scientists back home had hoped for. But when tragedy strikes, the men are driven deeper into the lethal realm, where they find much more than they bargained for, including a strange machine that seemingly transports Lucas back to a pre-flood Earth, and startling evidence that could transform mankind’s perspective on all creation and its Creator– if only the men could miraculously make their way back home to earth to reveal it. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 28 reviews)
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Exceeded my expectations by Andy Coffland  5 Stars
July 24, 2009
I enjoyed this book very much and recommend it. It has an excellent (and unique!) premise and is well-executed.
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Christian sci-fi... by EminemsRevenge 5 Stars
June 06, 2009
I got this book from the library, and when I read Charles Duke's foreword I almost returned it the next day--as one of my co-workers said, "Isn't Christian science fiction an oxymoron?
The compelling thing about this book was seeing how Mr Johnson would tie in REAL SCIENCE with sci-fi AND Christianity...and although his denouement isn't something I would've written...it did make sense!
With an alternate ending, this book would make an excellent TV series...problem is, you'd need someone like Mel Gibson believing in it in order for it to ever make it to the small screen.
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Good novel about Apollo Program by M. Werner (California)  4 Stars
January 25, 2009
Very good novel about flight of Apollo 19, and Apollo Applications Program hardware, to the south pole of the moon in search of ice (which was actually discovered by an unmanned lunar satelite in 1994). Hardcover published in 2002. Christian Theology is present in both discussions between characters, which is understandable given the situation in which they are placed, and in the plot. This is not really offensive if you are open minded, which I would hope any reader of science fiction would be...
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Could not put it down! by Wonderchick (Bedford , Va.) 5 Stars
February 15, 2007
This is one of the best books I have ever read. Have all of Shane Johnson's books now. Superb!
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Christian hard-core SF - not! by R. PARTRIDGE (Oz)  3 Stars
September 07, 2006
"Ice" begins with all the trappings of a first-rate contemporary "hard core" science fiction novel. The technical details, skilfully woven through a nail-biting plot make it a page turner, apparently of the stature of a Michael Crichton book. Alas, it meanders off into lengthy passages of religious introspection, and plot-breaks based on snap-of-the-fingers magic. The basic story idea is an intriging one, and for that the author is to be congratulated. Unfortunately, his personal religious passion overrides his duty to entertain his reader rather than preach at him/her. Sadly the last pages collapse the story entirely - the reader ploughs through the Afterword just to see if there is anything else there, but there is not. If the reader shares the author's uncompromising approach to Christian faith it might work, but the classic Apollo novel has yet to be written.
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