{"id":54031,"date":"2025-08-08T08:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54031\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:02:12","slug":"hadfield-to-land-in-city-for-new-book-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54031\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadfield to land in city for new book \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beloved Canadian astronaut and bestselling author Chris Hadfield will touch down in Winnipeg this fall to discuss his new novel.<\/p>\n<p>Hadfield\u2019s thriller Final Orbit will be published on Oct. 7 by Random House of Canada. It tells the story of the role of the 1970s Chinese space program in the space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcnallyrobinson.com\/product;isbn,9781039011335;at,aid5c4747e11fe2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy on mcnallyrobinson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3479687_web1_chris-hadfield.jpg\" data-pswp-width=\"2048\" data-pswp-height=\"1508\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3479687_web1_chris-hadfield.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Young \/ Canadian Press files&#10;                                Chris Hadfield\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Young \/ Canadian Press files<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hadfield<\/p>\n<p>McNally Robinson Booksellers is presenting the Winnipeg launch of Final Orbit in the Muriel Richardson Auditorium at WAG-Qaumajuq (330 Memorial Blvd.) on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:30 p.m. The event will be hosted by Free Press editor Paul Samyn.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSunday Passages<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Sundays<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Rollason\u2019s Sunday newsletter honouring and remembering lives well-lived in Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button passages-a-life-s-story inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for Sunday Passages<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tile-passages.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Sunday Passages\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hadfield is the author of two previous novels, The Defector and The Apollo Murders, as well as the memoir An Astronaut\u2019s Guide to Life on Earth, the photo book You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes and the children\u2019s book The Darkest Dark.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event are $35 plus fees and include a signed copy of Final Orbit; they can be purchased at wfp.to\/ilF.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3479687_web1_Final-Orbit.jpg\" data-pswp-width=\"990\" data-pswp-height=\"1500\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3479687_web1_Final-Orbit.jpg\" alt=\"Final Orbit\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Final Orbit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beloved Canadian astronaut and bestselling author Chris Hadfield will touch down in Winnipeg this fall to discuss his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-54031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}