So, the novel is inspired by all of that secrecy, and the people that have been lost to history.”Īuthor Inspiration: “I like to read upstairs at Northside Social. In the Soviet space program, there are a lot of secrets kept … Any of the space failures were covered up, and we never heard about them. “There is a real conspiracy in the novel, but not based on a real one. The Story: Set in 1964 USSR, the new book tells the story of the secretive Soviet space program-and how sets of cosmonaut twins were able to cover up rockets that never made it back from space. He moved here when his partner got a job in NoVA. He’s led the writers’ workshop at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia, won an Emmy for TV writing and has been a columnist for the Savannah Morning News. Lives in: Arlington Photo courtesy of Zach Powersīio: Powers, who is the communications director at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda and a writing teacher at NOVA Community College, published his first novel, Gravity Changes, in 2017. The Book: First Cosmic Velocity (Putnam/Penguin, $26)
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