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Title: Phoenix Rising by John J. Nance ISBN: 0-449-18290-8 Publisher: Gold Medal Pub. Date: June, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: so-so
Comment: I listened to the audiobook and my question is: "what factory makes the robot who read this book?
Rating: 2
Summary: Doesn't rise very high
Comment: A beautiful financial whiz gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to help bring Pan Am back from airline oblivion. (the real Pan Am had just gone under when this book appeared, and hardcore aviation enthusiasts were finding it hard to let go). The new Pan Am has a novel idea - fewer passengers per flight, leaving more room for lounges. Unfortunately, the idea is a dangerous one (more on that), and somebody has now set their sights on grounding PA for good. A series of elaborate accidents - so effective that heroic and quick-thinking piloting just barely save the day - plague PA planes in the air. On the ground, the mysterious conspiracy works to undercut PA's financing, requiring equally heroic and quick-thinking accounting methods. Will PA survive?
Will anybody care? "Phoenix Rising" is the typical example of a book that tries to come off as gripping and edge of your seat even as its prose and marketing are aimed comfortably within a well-established market (the market for readers who cares about an airline being named Pan Am; readers who know that there is a "big three" of US airlines; readers who care about the inner workings of aircraft financing). The premise itself has a big hole in it - why would somebody care enough about Pan Am to ground it? The heroine's explanation is utterly illogical: because it would prove you could fly planes with fewer passengers and with greater amenities and still turn a profit. Forgetting that that's pure wish fulfillment, were it true, the other airlines could just copy Pan Am's idea and profit just as easily as Pan Am. (Because the other airlines' position couldn't be as precarious as Pan Am's, they'd be even better positioned to profit from the idea than Pan Am, so the idea is simply illogical). The mysterious conspirators could also simply buy Pan Am outright. What really kills the book is...who cares? This isn't a book about a horrible air crash ("Final Approach") or some doomsday weapon ("Medusa's Child"). This is a book about airplanes flying with sleeper seats and treadmills - hardly earthshaking, and not worth anybody's time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Shanku Niyogi
Comment: Airplanes get de-icing treatment when there is a risk of icing. Not simply because it's cold.
At cruising altitude the temperature is colder than 50 degrees below zero. Is every flight de-iced? No.
As a commercial pilot, maybe the author knows more than you think.
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Title: Scorpion Strike by John J. Nance ISBN: 0449222217 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Final Approach by John J. Nance ISBN: 0449220354 Publisher: Crest Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Last Hostage by John J. Nance ISBN: 0312966393 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Medusa's Child by John J. Nance ISBN: 0312962452 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blackout by John J. Nance ISBN: 0515130125 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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