![]() Michener's fictional characters and locations are mixed in with real people who took part in the events in the novel. ![]() Michener follows his usual style of following a particular plot line for a few paragraphs or pages and then shifting to another set of characters for a bit and then on to another, gradually telling a massive story that covers decades and dozens of characters. As the novel progresses these individuals paths begin to cross as each is drawn into the American space race. ![]() SPACE opens in the final days of WWII and introduces the reader to four very different men, a young engineer on assignment in Europe, a courageous Naval Captain on duty in the Pacific, an American high school football hero with his eyes on the stars and thirty-seven year old German mechanical genius working at a top secret rocket installation. ![]()
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