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OCTOBER SKY

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內容簡介 The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to send rockets into outer space. The introspective son of the mine’s superintendent and a mother determined to get him out of Coalwood forever, Homer fell in with a group of misfits who learned not only how to turn scraps of metal into sophisticated rockets but how to sustain their hope in a town that swallowed its men alive.As the boys began to light up the tarry skies with their flaming projectiles and dreams of glory, Coalwood, and the Hickams, would never be the same.

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各界推薦 1957年的十月，當蘇俄的第一顆人造衛星成功發射後，美國西維珍尼亞貧寒的煤林鎮，一位高中生同樣是一個煤礦工的兒子荷馬Homer Hickam屏氣凝神地看著一顆劃過夜空的光點，此時對外太空的奧秘充滿著興趣的他立下了想要親近太空的心願；不過這個產煤礦的貧苦小鎮，所有的男孩不是從事有生命危險的礦工，就是設法努力取得足球獎學金上大學。Homer沒有雄健的體格，加上當煤產公司的高級主管的父親希望這個兒子能繼承父業，所以他的未來似乎註定只能在這個小鎮終其一生。不過他的夢想讓他與三個志同道合的好友組成了一個「火箭男兒幫」，希望他們自製的小型火箭，能在全國科技比賽中得獎，拿取獎學金進入大學，實現他們飛向太空的夢想。這個夢想遇到相當多的阻撓與挫折，不過最後的結局是令人欣慰的，Homer最後成為了美國太空總署的科學家。 一個夢想與實現的故事，作者以第一人稱的方式寫下的自己本身的故事，已經改編成電影。

作者介紹

作者介紹 Homer H. Hickam, Jr., was born and raised in Coalwood, West Virginia. The author of Torpedo Junction, a Military History Book of the Month Club selection, as well as numerous articles for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space and American History Illustrated, he is a NASA payload training manager for the International Space Program and lives in Huntsville, Alabama.

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