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John Nance

Our culture is so obsessed with reality television that you can hardly turn the TV on without running across one of these shows. Orbit is a book about the ultimate reality show -- a man trapped alone in space, orbiting the planet.

Kip Dawson is an ordinary, average man. His children are angry with him over their mother's death and his second marriage is in trouble. He can hardly believe his luck when he wins a trip for a commercial spaceflight to orbit Earth. He is excited, however his family is anything but. His wife forbids him to go and his kids back her up. He goes anyway, promising himself he will make amends when he returns.

Through a series of events, he finds himself alone in the spacecraft -- the pilot is dead, there is no radio communication, and he is on orbit with no way to ever come down. It looks hopeless. In the cockpit is a laptop computer. Kip decides to write final messages to those he loves in hopes that eventually the craft will fall to Earth and the computer will be found. As he starts writing, he finds it therapeutic, so he continues to pour out his heart into this computer. What he doesn't realize is that he has triggered an automatic download so his words are reaching Earth in real time.

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Soon the entire planet is hanging on his every word -- all the television channels are running his words live across the bottom of their screens, flight attendants are reading the text to passengers as it comes across the radios, schools are shut down, and businesses come to a halt since all workers are calling in sick so as not to miss a minute. His words are translated into hundreds of different languages. The world has put its life on hold to follow Kip.

As he contemplates his life -- the mistakes he has made, the things he neglected to do, the good times and bad -- and through his open, honest, bare-it-all writing, Kip makes a huge difference on planet Earth. For example, when he writes about wishing he had called his parents more to say ''I love you,'' phone systems all over the world crash from the traffic of millions and millions of people suddenly picking up their phones to call mom and dad.

This is a great story -- my husband enjoyed it just as much as I did. The message stays with you for a long time once you finish the book -- you really think about your life and the direction you are taking.

(Ages: Adult)

Autographed copies while supplies last.

#11000 - HARDCOVER BOOK - 275 PGS
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Sale price $17.97

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