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THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS.

Brown, Fredric.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1953. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second SF novel. A novel about the campaign to secure funding from Congress for the stalled American space program, money to send a manned spacecraft to Jupiter in 2001. "A powerful, poignant plea for spaceflight and a study of a man obsessed by it."- Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-68. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1217-20. Foxing to top and fore-edges of paper, a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket which has foxing to the rear panel. (16940). Item #16940

Price: $350.00