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Slingshot is the first volume of the acclaimed Starchild Trilogy. It follows the construction of the first Space Launch Loop between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. This will make space travel available to the masses--travel to the Moon for the price of a cross-country plane ticket.
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Dr. John Knapman, Director of Research for the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) said about Slingshot: The engineering triumph portrayed in this book is staggering – an electromagnetic loop 80 kilometers high able to launch spacecraft safely into orbit without rocket fuel. A dedicated team of visionaries overcomes natural hazards and sinister opponents to complete this heroic project. The detail is convincing, and the action is entertaining.
Prof. John B. Rosenman, Norfolk State University, commented that "the ending is one of the most powerful and moving I’ve ever read."
Here is a brief description of the book:
Slingshot is a love story – about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender bending…and a machine, the largest ever built.
Slingshot is a mystery – about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, a true-believer. Slingshot is an adventure – about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch-loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It’s about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal…and about opening space to the common person.
The setting is the day-after-tomorrow. Technology has advanced, the web is more pervasive than ever, but human ambition and greed remain unchanged. In Slingshot, Alex Regent, Margo Jackson, and Klaus Blumenfeld reach for the stars as they blend their skills to create the world’s first space launch-loop, backed by major software money. Environmental fanatic Lars Watson with his team of young eco-terrorists is funded by opposing international interests, who will go to any length to halt the project. Reporter Lori Kutcher indiscriminately applies her own personal skills to ensure it is she who reports the unfolding events to a watching world.
With a cast of 69, Slingshot takes you from Seattle’s world financial district, to the ocean bottom at 5,000 feet off Baker Island, to the edge of space 80 km above. You play with dolphins and battle sharks. You fly and sail and dive, you work and play and love across the vast panorama of an Equatorial Pacific being put to leash to serve humanity’s surge into outer space.