The Cosmonaut
The Last Cosmonaut
The year is 2029, and East Germany is celebrating its 80th anniversary as a socialist state. Cosmonaut Mandy Neumann has been aboard the east german space station for several weeks and is waiting for her replacement to arrive. But when the first inexplicable accidents occur, she starts to suspect that someone is sabotaging her mission. Shortly after, she loses contact with ground control and has to fight for her life.
The only person who can help her is Tobias Wagner, a police lieutenant. He's trying to track down a missing physicist who was involved in the construction of the space station. The trail leads him to a restricted military area in the eastern part of the country, where he quickly runs into trouble with his superiors. Because what Wagner discovers seems to endanger the existence of this nation - and perhaps even the entire world.
Alternative History Science Fiction.
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Into space? Never again! That is what Mandy Neumann, the last East German cosmonaut, swore to herself after escaping the death trap that the state's space station had become shortly after the 80th anniversary of her socialist republic.
But the danger encountered by Police Lieutenant Tobias Wagner in a restricted area of Lusatia has spread - and it threatens to destroy not only Eastern Germany but the entire world.
Scientists from both East and West despair as there seems to be no remedy. The only way out is to prevent the anomaly from developing in the first place. Someone must board the Russian Vostok-6 capsule in 1963, replacing the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. In 2032, however, there is only one person who has all the necessary skills - Mandy Neumann.
Can and should she refuse the task of saving the world?
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