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Bruce McCandless III

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Biography, Historical Fiction, Horror

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Bruce McCandless III is the author of the biography Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Free Flight in Space, an Amazon bestseller that was named a Best Book of 2021 by both Men's Journal and Kirkus Reviews. Wonders All Around is first and foremost a relationship story about a family caught up in a father's ambitions, disappointments, and struggle for professional redemption, all as played out against the real-life drama of America's manned space program in the Apollo, Skylab, and early Shuttle years.

A lifelong Texan, Bruce is also the author of the interlinked historical horror novels In the Land of Dead Horses, Sour Lake, and The Black Book of Cyrenaica, as well as a modern fairy ta ...more

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	Wonders All Around: The Incredible True Story of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II and the First Untethered Flight in Space 4.29 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Land of Dead Horses (American Paladin, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sour Lake: Or, The Beast (American Paladin, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beatrice and the Basilisk (The Beatrice McIlvaine Adventure, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carson Clare's Trail Guide to Avoiding Death by Bruce McCandless III (Goodreads Author), Carson McCandless (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Book of Cyrenaica 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Color War 3.90 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apocalypse Waltz by Bruce McCandless III (Goodreads Author), Danny Ramirez 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beatrice at Bay (The Beatrice McIlvaine Adventure, #2) by Bruce McCandless III (Goodreads Author), Carson McCandless 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Krottkey Chronicles 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bruce McCandless III's Blog: From Here to Infirmity

Big, Bold, and Utterly Unconventional

It seems like I've been working on this novel forever. It's the story of the creation of a musical on Broadway just after the Civil War, and involves gangs, young love, mistaken identities, revenge, blackmail, and spies. It's a lot. But at long last I feel comfortable with my cast of characters, to wit:

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Series by Bruce McCandless III

American Paladin (2 books)
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Bruce McCandless III (Goodreads Author)

4.08 avg rating — 355 ratings

The Beatrice McIlvaine Adventure (2 books)
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Bruce McCandless III (Goodreads Author),

Carson McCandless

3.88 avg rating — 110 ratings

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Red Moon Rising, published earlier this year, has an agenda, which it also uses as its subtitle: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier. The book’s authors believe the United States is engaged in a second space race, this time with communi ...more
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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

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