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STARCHILD The Long Way Home is an unfinished science fiction novel adapted from a forty-year old movie treatment. It uses popular scientific theories and quantum partial physics to tell a tale of a small band space/time travelers who journey to earth in a ship named the Starchild and become trapped on circa 1939 thru 1969 Earth. After the crash of their original craft, they hold out hope of returning home in a second hyper-light ship named the Starchild II. Their ability to travel interstellar is based on the way they figured out how overcome the M-factor in Einstein's Theory of Relativity equation. In the end, will Thomas Wolfe's famous statement "You can't go home again" prevail or will they succeed. This is the early release Collectors Edition which includes the original three film treatments and the associated movie proposals.

This is a reformatted softback full-color cover and original two column format black in white 8.5x11 edition (not a facsimile) of author Marvin Arnold's widely acclaimed 1989 coffee table edition. Includes hundreds of images, photos and automotive art of the early Lincoln automotive era. Of all the classic American motorcar manque stories, the story of the Lincoln personifies the American dream better than any other. The evolution of the Lincoln and Continental parallels the American automobile industry. Everyone who owns or appreciates fine motorcars like the Lincoln will enjoy reading this book. The book combines the story of the manque with the technical and developmental aspects of the automobile itself. The text is both interesting and factually informative. The appendixes to this book provide production figures and detailed information on the various models. Beginning with the coming of the automobile to the Americas in the late 1800s and concluding with the beginning of postwar automotive era, this book is an inside look at the forces, which began and ended the classic American automobile era. EARLY YEARS -Henry Martin Leland founds Cadillac and Lincoln. Henry Ford builds an automotive empire and his son, Edsel Ford, takes over Lincoln. The Model L Lincolns (1919-1930) are recognized as the finest coachbuilt motorcars in the world and become the aristocrats automobile in a time of opulence. CLASSIC YEARS - An era of Automobile Salons and custom coachbuilts. These are the chauffeur-driven Landaulets and Broughams, the Roadsters and Sedans of the rich and famous. The period of the Model K Lincoln (1931-1940) ushers in the V-12 engine and classic craftsmanship. The world is changing and soon these massive motorcars would give way to that progress and become the last of the big iron. STREAMLINE YEARS - These are the designs influenced by the age of Art Deco and aerodynamic appearances. The Zephyr automobile arrives (1935-1948), in an era of reconstruction and colossal World's Fairs. New manufacturing techniques, like unit body construction, create an all new model of automobile. From these designs evolve the famous Lincoln Continental, perceived today as the only modern classic. MODERN YEARS - America survives a world war and gets on with the business of building a better nation. These new designs are influenced by the tanks and bombers that preceded them. They are modern designs manufactured with an outdated technology. The bulbous era Lincolns and Cosmopolitans (1948-1951) are not yet the modern cars of today, but a major leap in the evolution to that end result.

Flight of the Setting Sun is an action adventure love story; a 568-page historical fiction novel covering four decades. The story of Captain Jake Martin, heir to a Texas oil fortune and China Clipper pilot, tells of his exploits piloting experimental flying boats in the 1930s, P-40 fighter planes in prewar Burma, B-17 bomber raids and espionage flights into wartime Europe. A friend and associate of Juan Tripp and Howard Hughes, Jake becomes an aviation industrialist during and after W.W.II and the designing one of the first American corporate jets. The story begins in 1926 when Jake is eleven years old and concludes in the 1960s. This story captures the true feeling of the glory years of aeronautical development from Jenny to the jet. Jake's life adventure takes him from Texas to New York, California, to the Asian Pacific and to wartime London. It is not just a tale of adventure, but a story of one man's struggle to deal with a failed marriage to the wrong woman, raising two young children on his own and the loss of the young girl he called the Dragon Lady he met and fell in love with in 1941 Burma. Jake Martin was a man given a passion for flight when he was very young and lived the life that was dealt him as a result of that passion. This is a story of choices, the choices that each of us makes in our lives that define who we are and what we become.

This is the revised and corrected 3rd and last edition of this book which was first published in 2003. The book is a series of short vignettes linked together to relate the memories of an aviator in a golden age of civil and military aviation. These are the kind of hangar flying stories pilots tell when they are not airborne, waiting out the weather or standing around drinking coffee. It is also the biography of a generation born in the 1930s, too late to fly dirigibles or be barnstormers and too young for WWII; stories of the forgotten aircraft engineers and pilots of the 1960s and 70s, who helped make air travel safer than riding the bus, all told with humor and rich sarcasm.