The New Frontiers Series, Book One: The Ship

Rockets are inherently limited; at some point, fuel and oxidizer becomes too heavy and the rocket itself too complicated. But what if there was a better way? A true electronic space drive, reliable, safe, and cheap to operate? But the drive system is only part of the problem; it takes money, management, and engineering to build a working spaceship. Lots of it. And even if you DO manage to build a working spaceship, what will you do with it? How can you recoup the initial investment and finance more ships? Threatened industries will try to shut the company down. Governments will try to take it over. How is a small, threatened company, barely a step from bankruptcy, to succeed despite such terrible odds? From a new industrial revolution to the brink of global war, restless humanity presses onward, eventually to the first contact with an alien species. There will be changes...if we survive. Fans of Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, and Jerry Pournelle will love this hard-SF series. ...like some of the first ones I read in the 50s

Author: Jack L. Knapp

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Sep 02, 2018

Number of Pages: 414 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1720012105

ISBN-13: 9781720012108