ISBN 1-58939-240-x. $6.00. Ebook in pdf format delivered via email. 388 Pages.
Joseph Heller's rollicking novel, Catch-22, used black humor to point out, and point up, the inanities and insanities experienced by men at war. In a similar vein, It's Too Late to Leave Early employs plain vanilla humor to illustrate the frustrations and idiocies common to an industry the author, a former aerospace engineer, knows all too well. You'll meet many outrageous characters a one time porn queen who's into blackmail; the wealthy great-grandson of a Russian aviation pioneer who'lll do anything to get back the company he believes was "stolen" from his family; a former Air Force lieutenant colonel who reinvents himself as a totally inept favorite of management; a wannabe Western film star who's never been within fifty yards of a horse; an ultra-paranoid executive vice president and general manager; a nymphomaniacal lady scheduler and sundry others all of whom are embroiled in situations ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime, and beyond. Enjoy!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Walling, a lifelong Californian and former aerospace engineer, was employed during the Desert Storm conflict by a Menlo Park producer of Flight Motion Simulators, and more recently as technical journalist for a supplier of Global Positioning Systems. It's Too Late To Leave Early, An Aerospace Fable, is his third novel published by Virtualbookworm.com, Inc. Other titles include the science fiction works Olympus Mons and Sometimes the Dragon Wins.
Bill and Judy live in the heart of Silicon Valley, They have three daughters, plus one grandson. Bill has had three hardcover novels published which are no longer in print, in addition to science articles and numerous magazine novelettes and short stories, all in the speculative fiction genre. He has only recently returned to writing fiction. His hobbies include films, music and astronomy.
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