Based upon an Alistair MacLean novel, The Golden Rendezvous is an action packed movie that is very typical of it’s era, that being the 1970′s. A lot of action, the acting perhaps not the greatest but acceptable and a great cast of notable actors in it. In many ways, the movie was made the same way that TV shows in the 80′s were made. Bad guys shot, apparently aiming and yet cannot hit anything while the good guys, shot one handed, with the gun wobbling and still manage to hit what they are aiming for.

Richard Harris is the main character and as such is great. Harris was always fun to watch and in this movie he is no different. Such names as Gordon Jackson, John ‘guess who the villain is’ Vernon, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith and John Carradine fill out the cast with the drop dead beautiful Ann Turkel as the requisite female.

Funnily enough, the music was written by Jeff Wayne, who in that same year created the classic Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of War Of The Worlds. If at all familiar with that record, you will recognize the music in this movie as coming from the same man. Similar but not the same.

The movie stays close to the book until the final twenty five minutes where, perhaps to avoid the more disturbing ending featured in the book, the twist in the tail isn’t as twisty as on paper.

I am sure that at the time, this movie was a good movie, if not great. Any fan of the book should watch the movie, if only to never read the book again without imagining Richard Harris as Carter!

Cosmonaut starts with a shocking bang and then slows as it builds up to its climax. Published in 2003, after the two space shuttle disasters, Challenger and Columbia, it introduces a NASA organization who has banked everything on the ISS. Filled with convincing technical babble and descriptions, really sets the scene well for the action back on earth. The ISS is very well described as well.

The main character, Edge Reynolds, is like lead characters in many books, beaten to within an inch of their lives and yet, still able to win the day! The name, Edge, is also like something from the 1960′s where Catcher Block is writing about mens fashions. He displays more cop than astronaut abilities with just enough experience in zero gravity to get his way around.

Cosmonaut, Peter McAllister’s first, is a good science based, science fiction book. It is a whodunit, in space, with an additional twist that you are not expecting. At times it feels like it was written in the 1960′s rather than the 1980′s, and the ending was a little predictable/kind of anti-climatic but it is still a very enjoyable book.

Cosmonaut starts with a shocking bang and then slows as it builds up to its climax. Published in 2003, after the two space shuttle disasters, Challenger and Columbia, it introduces a NASA organization who has banked everything on the ISS. Filled with convincing technical babble and descriptions, really sets the scene well for the action back on earth. The ISS is very well described as well.

The main character, Edge Reynolds, is like lead characters in many books, beaten to within an inch of their lives and yet, still able to win the day! The name, Edge, is also like something from the 1960′s where Catcher Block is writing about mens fashions. He displays more cop than astronaut abilities with just enough experience in zero gravity to get his way around.

Cosmonaut, Peter McAllister’s first, is a good science based, science fiction book. It is a whodunit, in space, with an additional twist that you are not expecting. At times it feels like it was written in the 1960′s rather than the 1980′s, and the ending was a little predictable/kind of anti-climatic but it is still a very enjoyable book.

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