ALL UP
Bestselling Star Wars author and former Lucasfilm creative executive J. W. Rinzler combines actual and speculative history in a sweeping re-creation of the dramatic race to develop rockets, dominate the skies over Earth, and explore our Solar System—an epic that rages through World War II and culminates with the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ALL UP
“ALL UP is an exceptional book that takes the reader beyond the usual descriptions of the challenges and achievements of the first Space Age, by describing the human reality behind the extraordinary efforts of intelligence and will that made it all possible."
— Dr. Jacques F. Vallée, computer scientist, winner of the Jules Verne Award for science-fiction
“With its fascinating personalities that only Rinzler could describe, ALL UP can’t be put down.”
— David Mandel, executive producer of Veep
"ALL UP reminds me in some ways of the great novels by James Michener and Leon Uris that teach us history in a fictional manner."
— David Chudwin, I Was a Teenage Space Reporter: From Apollo 11 to Our Future in Space
“J. W. Rinzler ingeniously weaves together the stuff of history and science-fiction, what really happened and what seems both fantastic and yet almost possible. So hang on for the jet-propelled ride of your life — you won't want to stop till you find out how it all comes out!”
— Roy Thomas, member Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
All Up tells the incredible true story of Nazi Germany’s Wernher von Braun, Soviet Russia’s Sergei Korolev, and America’s Robert Goddard as they work feverishly to fulfill their countries’ technological, military, and geopolitical objectives while satisfying their own personal obsessions. Alongside the Space Age history is the strange but well-documented trail of UFOs—one that leads to a desperate struggle in the highest corridors of power. Who will control the alien technology for their hidden agendas during the Cold War? Secret services compete worldwide in that ruthless game—and no one is a more deadly player than the mysterious agent named Rachel, hot on the trail of war criminal, former SS Brigadeführer Hans Kammler.
Combining the world-changing events of rocketry, space travel, and world war with some of the most intriguing episodes of extraterrestrials and facts generally hushed up, All Up takes the reader on a truly original journey. Going behind the scenes of Nazi Germany’s hidden rocket base and top secret meetings of MI6, to the mysterious flying saucer crash at Roswell and a possible alien presence on the Moon, Rinzler blends fact and speculative nonfiction to take you deep into history’s most exciting adventure in the company of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, Walt Disney, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.
J. W. Rinzler thus brings a fascinating new perspective on the arc of rocket science in the mid-twentieth century—from the V-2 bombardment of London to the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, to the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs, and more—interlaced with the threads of neglected history: UFOs, Freemasonry, and shadow governments.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ALL UP
“ALL UP is an exceptional book that takes the reader beyond the usual descriptions of the challenges and achievements of the first Space Age, by describing the human reality behind the extraordinary efforts of intelligence and will that made it all possible."
— Dr. Jacques F. Vallée, computer scientist, winner of the Jules Verne Award for science-fiction
“With its fascinating personalities that only Rinzler could describe, ALL UP can’t be put down.”
— David Mandel, executive producer of Veep
"ALL UP reminds me in some ways of the great novels by James Michener and Leon Uris that teach us history in a fictional manner."
— David Chudwin, I Was a Teenage Space Reporter: From Apollo 11 to Our Future in Space
“J. W. Rinzler ingeniously weaves together the stuff of history and science-fiction, what really happened and what seems both fantastic and yet almost possible. So hang on for the jet-propelled ride of your life — you won't want to stop till you find out how it all comes out!”
— Roy Thomas, member Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame
All Up tells the incredible true story of Nazi Germany’s Wernher von Braun, Soviet Russia’s Sergei Korolev, and America’s Robert Goddard as they work feverishly to fulfill their countries’ technological, military, and geopolitical objectives while satisfying their own personal obsessions. Alongside the Space Age history is the strange but well-documented trail of UFOs—one that leads to a desperate struggle in the highest corridors of power. Who will control the alien technology for their hidden agendas during the Cold War? Secret services compete worldwide in that ruthless game—and no one is a more deadly player than the mysterious agent named Rachel, hot on the trail of war criminal, former SS Brigadeführer Hans Kammler.
Combining the world-changing events of rocketry, space travel, and world war with some of the most intriguing episodes of extraterrestrials and facts generally hushed up, All Up takes the reader on a truly original journey. Going behind the scenes of Nazi Germany’s hidden rocket base and top secret meetings of MI6, to the mysterious flying saucer crash at Roswell and a possible alien presence on the Moon, Rinzler blends fact and speculative nonfiction to take you deep into history’s most exciting adventure in the company of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, Walt Disney, Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.
J. W. Rinzler thus brings a fascinating new perspective on the arc of rocket science in the mid-twentieth century—from the V-2 bombardment of London to the launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, to the Gemini, Mercury, and Apollo programs, and more—interlaced with the threads of neglected history: UFOs, Freemasonry, and shadow governments.
J. W. Rinzler
J. W. Rinzler has authored more than twenty books, three New York Times bestsellers, and a London Times bestseller, including The Making of Alien, The Complete Making of Indiana Jones, and the #1 best-selling graphic novel The Star Wars.
ALL UP is his second novel, and will be published by Permuted Press on July 14, 2020. Readers can preorder now.
ALL UP is his second novel, and will be published by Permuted Press on July 14, 2020. Readers can preorder now.