Although it's been many years since I read this, I remember lending it to several of my friends in college, and they loved it so much that I eventually never got it back. <\/p>\n
This book was, of course, the basis for the popular cheesy '70s show \"The Six Million Dollar Man\". But this book is anything but cheesy. Steve Austin is an astronaut\/pilot involved in the very real, very dangerous and exciting NASA \"lifting body\" program of the late '60s and early '70s, a program devoted to finding an acceptable design for the Space Shuttle. Martin Caidin, the author of this book, was a doctor who actually participated in this program, and he was actually at Rogers Dry Lake bed when Bruce Peterson plowed his M2-F2 into the turf in a terrible accident--the very same wreck that we saw at the beginning of every \"Six Million Dollar Man\" episode. <\/p>\n
Steve Austin, who similarly crashes and is seriously injured, gets \"enhanced\" artificial limbs and an eye (although the eye really only functions as a camera; when this book was written, an actual \"seeing\" eye was WAY too farfetched), and he is enlisted by the government to perform special missions, including stealing a Russian MIG from a base in the Middle East. <\/p>\n
Austin's problems with his new \"freakish\" nature and with his being used as a pawn of the government are quite realistically portrayed. Caidin delves much farther into the psychology of a \"bionic\" (which is actually a misnomer) man than the TV series ever did. <\/p>\n
A very fun, fascinating, exciting read, if you can find it. One of my favorite books of all time. <\/p>\n
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