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Otto Willi Gail


The Shot into Infinity

The Shot into Infinity

The Shot into Infinity: Book 1

Otto Willi Gail

First published in English in 1929, Otto Willi Gail's little-known space travel novel is almost documentary in its realism.

Based on the latest research by such pioneers in astronautics as Hermann Oberth and Max Valier, "The Shot Into Infinity" is not only an exciting and suspenseful novel but also an accurate mirror of the state of the art of space travel during that time period.

The Stone From the Moon

The Stone From the Moon

The Shot into Infinity: Book 2

Otto Willi Gail

In this novel, a sequel to "The Shot Into Infinity", Gail combines several science fiction themes into a single exciting, suspenseful narrative: Space travel, including one of the first space stations to appear in fiction, which serves to focus solar energy down to Earth. Atlantis, the origins of ancient human cultures and the bizarre World Ice Theory of Hanns Horbiger, which eventually became an official science source for Nazi racial theory.

Although Horbiger was one of the great pseudoscientists of the twentieth century, Gail's descriptions of space travel were based meticulously on the work of astronautics pioneers Hermann Oberth and Max Valier. In addition to being a thrilling novel, this book is also an accurate mirror of the state of the art of astronautics during the time.

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