Publisher's Synopsis
Space-Age Cowboys is a novel about 1960's America: an electric world, convulsing between the high-tech scientific achievements of the Space Race and a blossoming counter-cultural universe of flower children, hippies and acid gurus. In Los Angeles, "East of Sepulveda" the Space Race is driven by theoretical engineers with heads in the clouds, and conservative self-taught technicians lost in a world of country and western music, hard drinking, mathematical conundrums and all-American family lives. While "West of Sepulveda" experiments in alternative life-styles flourish, including drug cultures, Eastern philosophies and a blossoming sexual revolution. Plunged into this bizarre Los Angelino world while seeking the American Dream is William J Sykes, an English born South African immigrant and would be aerospace engineer. He will encounter many "gurus" on both sides of that "Sepulveda devide" during his journey to acceptance and success. But non more influential than brilliant engineer and technical genius Jack Warner. It is often through the experiences of this unlikely pair that we witness developments in the California Aerospace Industry ranging from "bread and butter" space programs, all the way to Apollo's first voyage to the moon.
