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DIED. MARTIN CAIDIN, 69, high-velocity science and adventure writer whose 100-plus books include Cyborg, the novel that spawned TV's The Six Million Dollar Man; of cancer; in Tallahassee, Florida...
When an Apollo spacecraft links up with a Soviet Soyuz above the earth this summer, Writer Martin Caidin, author of nearly 90 science and adventure stories, will have a greater feeling of involvement than most Americans. Caidin learned recently that the movie version of his popular 1964 space novel
Less than two months later, the Russians told Handler that they were willing not only to expand scientific contacts but to begin discussing the design of a common docking mechanism. Shortly thereafter, the two countries initiated formal negotiations for a joint mission. Comments Caidin: "It's damn nice to know that a writer can sometimes influence the course of history...
SAMURAI!, by Saburo Sakai, with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito (382 pp.; Dutton; $4.95), sweeps through the South Pacific with all guns firing as Pilot Sakai and his squadron of Zeros effortlessly shoot U.S. planes out of the sky. In five seconds over Port Moresby, four Airacobras are sent spinning into the sea. Another time the Japs down six of seven null without the loss of a Zero...
...bomb on a U.S. industrial town and morbidly watches the gory disaster work itself out. World War III comes to Harrington, U.S.A. with a touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound. His wife is the first of 189,868 victims of the Bomb. As men, women...