From: utzoo!watmath!idhopper
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Re: SPACE
Article-I.D.: watmath.4688
Posted: Tue Mar  8 12:59:57 1983
Received: Tue Mar  8 23:44:39 1983
References: utah-cs.1439

I have not read Michener's Space, but I have read both Tom Wolfe's "The Right
Stuff" and Oriana Fallaci's "If The Sun Dies".  I found the latter to give
much more insight into the characters involved; the former tended to have a
bit of a gosh-golly-gee-whiz attitude about it.  If you have time, read both,
as the insights they give are complementary.  If you have time to read only
one, I would recommend Fallaci's book (the most recent Whole Earth Catalog
says it's out of print, and that is probably still the case, so you'll have
to dig around a library or used book store to find a copy).
	--ravi