Robert Goddard, Author, Donna Ng, Editor Pocket Books $22.95 (332p) ISBN 978-0-671-89092-6 British novelist Goddard's thriller of deception and conspiracy takes place in Europe between the world wars.

Author Robert Goddard is not to be confused with early rocket designer Robert Goddard. Too bad; it would be pretty cool to go from rocketeer to suspense novelist. —Carolyn Kellogg.

For his March roundup, Robert Dex chooses a debut set in 1932s Glasgow, an unlikely Japanese secretary-turned-sleuth criss-crossing the globe in search of clues, and the return of Yorkshire ...

Robert H. Goddard's first rocket soared for about 2 1/2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad — a snow-covered patch of dirt in his aunt's backyard. As we ...

Robert H. Goddard, the American father of modern rocketry, built and tested the world's first liquid-fuel rocket in 1926. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is named in his honor.

Robert Goddard, . . Delta, $12 (294pp) ISBN 978-0-440-24280-2. This compelling stand-alone thriller from British author Goddard (Play to the End) ...

Many people, including the author of a January 13, 1920 editorial in the New York Times, misunderstood Newton's law and assumed that rockets worked because their exhaust pushed against the air itself.

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard's Uncle Spud gave him this copy of The War of the Worlds in 1898. More than a hundred years later, it passed into the hands of essayist Amanda Katz.

Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1882, Robert H. Goddard is known as the "father of modern rocketry" and is credited for creating and testing the world's first liquid-fuel rocket.

A fresh crop of crime fiction for summer reading includes new books by Walter Mosley, British writer Robert Goddard and Seattle novelist Ingrid Thoft. Thoft appears June 30 at Seattle ...

The Fine Art Of Invisible Detection, by Robert Goddard Bantam, £18.99 In some ways, Goddard’s new novel follows his usual formula – a decent, middle-aged, slightly humdrum British man is ...