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Robert Goddard (novelist)

English novelist

For the US professor and scientist, see Robert H. Goddard.

Robert William Goddard (born 13 November 1954 in Fareham, Hampshire) is an English novelist.

Life and career

Goddard was educated at Bathampton County Primary School then Wallisdean County Junior School and Price's Grammar School in Fareham, before going on to study history at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After unsuccessful attempts at careers in both journalism and teaching, he worked for a time as an educational administrator in Devon before becoming a full-time novelist. His thrillers usually have a historical element and settings in English towns and cities, and many plot twists. They usually involve the lead character gradually uncovering a secret or conspiracy which has long been kept secret, by means of historical documents such as diaries or by means of word-of-mouth accounts that have been handed down from one person to another. Goddard's first novel, Past Caring, was published in 1986. He has since written more than twenty novels; the majority have been Sunday Times Top Ten best-sellers in the UK.

Awards

Goddard's 1990 book Into the Blue was the inaugural winner of the W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award, presented to the best new fiction author of the year.

Goddard's 1997 book Beyond Recall was nominated for the Edgar Award Best Novel prize but lost out to Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark.

Goddard's book Long Time Coming won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Original Paperback and was nominated for the 2011 Anthony award in the same category.

In 2019, Goddard was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association for his outstanding lifetime contribution to the crime fiction genre.

Harry Barnett

The books Into the Blue, Out of the Sun and Never Go Back, although distinct books in their own right, form a chronological series featuring

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    Past Caring
    4.16 avg rating — 7,228 ratings — published 1986 — 51 editions
    The Fine Art of Invisible Detection
    3.97 avg rating — 5,115 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions
    Into the Blue (Harry Barnett #1)
    4.02 avg rating — 3,738 ratings — published 1990 — 56 editions
    In Pale Battalions
    4.02 avg rating — 3,047 ratings — published 1988 — 42 editions
    Long Time Coming
    3.84 avg rating — 2,604 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions
    This is the Night They Come for You
    4.23 avg rating — 2,174 ratings — 8 editions
    Fault Line
    3.99 avg rating — 2,160 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions
    The Ways of the World (The Wide World Trilogy #1)
    3.76 avg rating — 2,249 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions
    Panic Room
    3.63 avg rating — 2,292 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions
    Sight Unseen
    3.83 avg rating — 2,163 ratings — published 2005 — 34 editions

    Robert H. Goddard

    American physicist & rocketry pioneer (1882–1945)

    For other people with the name Robert Goddard, see Robert Goddard (disambiguation).

    Robert Goddard

    Born(1882-10-05)October 5, 1882

    Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.

    DiedAugust 10, 1945(1945-08-10) (aged 62)

    Baltimore, Maryland, U.S

    Education
    Occupation(s)Professor, aerospace engineer, physicist, inventor
    Known forFirst liquid-fueled rocket
    Spouse

    Esther Christine Kisk

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    (m. 1924⁠–⁠1945)​
    Awards

    Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueledrocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph).

    Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments that would make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions, a multi-stage rocket (1914), and a liquid-fuel rocket (1914), were important milestones toward spaceflight. His 1919 monographA Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes is considered one of the classic texts of 20th-century rocket science. Goddard successfully pioneered modern methods such as two-axis control (gyroscopes and steerable thrust) to allow rockets to control their flight effectively.

    Although his work in the field was revol



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