Livro sobre jovem que acaba no espaço após o apocalipse

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Lembro-me de um livro de cerca de 25-30 anos atrás. O personagem principal era uma jovem garota possivelmente no início da adolescência. Ela estava em um abrigo de algum tipo sozinha, mas havia aprendido muito sobre sobrevivência e ciência com o pai.

Quando ela sai do bunker, ela inicialmente pensa que está sozinha, mas descobre que outros ainda estão vivos na Terra. Durante sua jornada para encontrar alguém, ela acaba no espaço - onde me lembro especificamente da discussão sobre mecânica orbital e da necessidade de "desacelerar" para "recuperar o atraso" (algo que mais tarde me diverti no Kerbal Space Program).

Alguém pode identificar este livro para mim? Eu adoraria relê-lo.

por Steve 25.07.2019 / 20:58

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Eu teria certeza de que é Emergência por David Palmer, publicado pela primeira vez (em um volume) no 1984. Há uma sequela, Rastreamento, escrito décadas depois.

The following day a worldwide attack, featuring a bionuclear plague, wipes out virtually all of humanity (i.e., Homo sapiens). With pet bird Terry, a Hyacinthine macaw, her "lifelong retarded, adopted twin brother," who tends to "parrot" Candy's words even before she speaks, she survives the attack in the shelter beneath their house. Emerging three months later, she learns of her genetic heritage and sets off to search for others of her kind.

First the hunt turns up "Adam", a cheeky, irrepressibly punning, multitalented 13-year-old boy, who immediately sets out to win Candy's heart; next, Rollo Jones, a middle-aged physician with a broad history of survival-in-the-wilds experience ranging from a stint in the Peace Corps to mountain climbing; and finally, Kim Melon, an early-20s mom whose background is in computer engineering with Lisa, her six-year-old daughter. Rollo reveals himself as a sociopath, whom Candy is forced to kill defending Terry and herself. Adam, Kim, and Lisa join Candy's quest for the AA community. As part of the search, Adam reveals that he is an ultralight aircraft pilot. Later he teaches Candy to fly.

Thereafter, an ultralight engine failure separates Candy from the others. After getting it running again, she spots a contrail, which leads her to Vandenberg Space Shuttle Launch Complex, where Teacher and the AAs are laboring to preflight a shuttle, renamed the Nathan Hale. They have identified those who wiped out mankind, the Bratstvo, translated as the "Brotherhood", a cabal of H. sapiens, working from inside the Russian military to destroy all H. post hominems. As insurance, they have placed a doomsday device in geosynchronous orbit, a Strontium-90 bomb whose fallout will render Earth uninhabitable for 200 years.

25.07.2019 / 21:04