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Hadfield is already a published author, having written the 2013 autobiographyAn Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth, as well as the children’s book The Darkest Dark and You Are Here, a collection of photographs taken from the International Space Station, where he became the first Canadian to command the ISS.
His foray into fiction makes him unusual among those in space program, most of whom stick to memoirs, from the very first (Yuri Gagarin’s Soviet Man in Space) to Limitless, the autobiography of British astronaut Tim Peake, due out this month. But the multi-hyphenate Hadfield has worked in other fields, notably music. His 2015 album Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can includes his cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, which he also played in space.
Random House says The Apollo Murders’ mix of science and tension will appeal to fans of The Martian and The Hunt for Red October, with the added frisson of an author who, when he writes about the stress of a rocket launch or living in microgravity, has the experience to back up his prose.
As they say, write what you know.
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