Slingshot: Building the largest machine in human history - Couverture rigide

Williscroft, Robert G

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1732478880 ISBN 13 : 9781732478886

Editeur : Starman Press, 2018

Synopsis

NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner!
      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 Jar 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 are funded by opposing financial 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Robert G. Williscroft is a retired submarine officer, deep-sea and saturation diver, scientist, author, and a lifelong adventurer. He spent 22 months underwater, a year in the equatorial Pacific, three years in the Arctic ice pack, and a year at the Geographic South Pole. He holds degrees in Marine Physics and Meteorology and a doctorate for developing a system to protect SCUBA divers in contaminated water. A prolific author of both non-fiction, Cold War technothrillers, and hard science fiction, he lives in Centennial, Colorado, with the girl of his dreams, Jill, and her two cats.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Starman Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1732478880
• ISBN 13: 9781732478886
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Williscroft Robert G
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible