Sputnik's Child
By Fred Ledley
()
About this ebook
Jackie is Sputnik’s Child, born on October 4, 1957, the day that a human satellite first escaped the gravity of Earth for the heavens. This is her story, and a history of the baby boom generation, forged in an Age of Aquarius, which found faith in the promise of technologies powerful enough to transport men to the Moon and picture the Earth as it might appear to God. Jackie and her friends come of age amidst the turbulence of the 1960s, frightened by race riots, civil defense drills, terrorism, and the Vietnam War. They find ideas that will guide them through adulthood in the civil rights movement, the spirit of Woodstock, family traditions, and the conquest of space. For Jackie, the image of astronauts orbiting and walking on the Moon gives her confidence that the frightful problems on Earth can be solved. As her faith and friendships mature through an era of social malaise, the “Me” Decade, and a time of irrational exuberance, she achieves personal and professional success communicating the promise of the emerging age of technology. But when her daughter is diagnosed with a disease that has no known cause or cure, Jackie is confronted with a crisis of faith.
Fred Ledley
Fred Ledley is an accomplished physician, scientist, entrepreneur, and member of the baby boom generation. He has written extensively on topics ranging from biology and medicine to philosophy, ethics, education, and the sense of wonder. In his first novel, Sputnik’s Child, he provides a human perspective on the ideas that influenced his generation and the faith that will inform the future. Ledley is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts where he teaches biology, management, and futurism.
Related to Sputnik's Child
Related ebooks
A Mind at Home with Itself: How Asking Four Questions Can Free Your Mind, Open Your Heart, and Turn Your World Around Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Katy And The Emerald Key Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDegrees of Deception Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReflection Of Evil Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinding Hope Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTime Conjurer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMatters of the Heart Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat We Don't See Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLove, Miracles and Medicine Men: Adventures with an Indigenous Healer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Least of These: Mask of Matthew Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKnife Edge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeart of Fire Time of Ice: The Time Equation Novels, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pieces Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFeathers from the Fire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Sinister Bouquet: Awakening: Sinister Series, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe 49th Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDarkness to Light Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecrets Of A Shy Socialite Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Child's Heart Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Care for a Human Girl: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWriter's Block Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStone 588 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Mother's Heart Beat: Chickee Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsViolet Flame to Heal Body, Mind and Soul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl and the Collar Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Short Wonders Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTempered Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Flapper, the Scientist, and the Saboteur Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpectrums Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Birds of Flight Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
General Fiction For You
The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The King James Version of the Bible Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Candy House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Black Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Sputnik's Child
0 ratings0 reviews