Final Orbit J. G. Ballard despite a stunning British victory

despite a stunning British victory

a criminal barrister

but the fate of the entire world

statesman and seducer whose adventures rival those of Odysseus himself

Final Orbit J. G. Ballard despite a stunning British victoryHouston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet American cooperation. But as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly accident changes everything. Meanwhile, from a remote location in east Asia, the first Chinese spacecraft secretly launches. On board is China's first astronaut, Fang