The Rocket Company Book

This book is published by the AIAA the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and in the library where I got it it was shelved as a non-fiction book (629.441 to be exact) yet it is a book of fiction. It is a very bad book of fiction, since it fails to establish characters or present any kind of dramatic situation. When you're a genius level author you can do without characters or drama but unfortunately this is not the case here. All the authors do here is chart the prgress of an imaginary rocket company over the months and the years and the decades to come.

"The Rocket Company" is as dull as the dullest blade you've ever felt. I read it through, little bit by little bit to see where it would go in its mission to "prove" that yes, good old US private enterprise can create a new space age where governments have failed us. I have to say that I enjoyed myself by laughing at the ridiculous arguments that the authors presented, chapter after chapter.

I must say though that the authors see to be full of good intentions. You can see that they put a lot of work in that book. The broblem is that they they didn,t know how to present those ideas they loved so much and they took one of the worst possible paths ever, by making a text based docudrama of the whole thing. The only time I remember seeing such an urge to do good in a book, such a love for an engineering idea coupled with such a miserable failure at communications was in "The Transportation Renaissance: The Personal Rapid Transit Solution" by Edmund W. F. Rydell.