Gravity Drive

Key to the Cosmos

De: Paul Rosenfeld

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Praise for Gravity Drive :
“I started reading Gravity Drive after dinner, figuring I'd get a couple chapters into it just to see how it started...and couldn't put it down. I read the whole thing straight through. Well done! I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the characters. I loved the aliens.” Jerry Oltion - Nebula Award winning author of over 15 novels and 150 published stories, including numerous Authorized Star Trek novels.

Author’s Note: If you’re looking for a real science fiction story (think 2001 A Space Odyssey, Contact, Hail Mary….) then you’ve found your next great adventure. If all you’re looking for, however, is gratuitous sex and violence with half naked men and women on the cover then this is NOT the trilogy for you.

Since the invention of rockets, their propulsion systems have gone essentially unchanged. We still depend on blasting some type of propellant out the rear to shoot the rocket forward (Newton’s Third Law - check it out). There’s two problems with this method: propellant is always in limited supply, and you can’t really go very fast, so we use gravitational assist from planets to get us places. It still takes years, and that’s just inside our solar system. What if we could go to our Moon in hours or Mars in a couple days, and even turn around mid-flight if we forgot our toothbrush?

This is the story behind the development of the Gravity Drive propulsion system. Howard, the hero of our story (well, he’s not really a hero so much as an engineer) has a close encounter of the,.... well,..... close kind. He realizes he’s far more interested in how the ship moves than who might be inside. He dedicates himself to duplicating the alien craft’s drive system, which he believes centers around the ability to create a gravity well for propulsion, which is really consistent with the bulk of UFO (UAP) sightings.

Our story takes us back to 1947 Roswell (yeah that place), where we learn what really happened that night, and the surprising reason the government wants to keep it quiet. We go forward in time and meet a pair of trouble making engineers who are in charge of uncovering the secrets from the crashed alien craft. They meet our hero, Howard, who brings the knowledge that finally helps our engineers discover how the alien craft works. Actually, how it worked, because not so much now. Our three heroes convince NASA to build the first Gravity Drive space ship, and off they fly on an adventure that takes them to meet friendly aliens and a bio-engineered, wacky Artificial Intelligence computer who shows them short cuts through space and time to give humanity the key to exploring the Cosmos (hence the title of the book, in case you missed that).

Our now four heroes come back after a long journey through space and time to bring hope to the life on Earth. However, advanced civilizations in our galaxy really hate having violent species invading their peaceful space. So we’re given an ultimatum that humans need to get their shit together, stop making war, and clean up their planet or else! That pretty much says it.

But hey, there’s lots of fun along the way, and one really smart dog that you’re going to love. The book was written for everyone from rocket scientists and engineers, to young people who dream of someday being one of those two. It’s also written for Vegans (the vegetarian type, not the ones from Vega), peaceful environmental activists, and dog lovers. If you’re looking for a book that doesn’t rely on violence to keep you turning pages, and proves that science and exploration can be fun while also being educational, then you’ve found your next great book.

If you enjoy this book, don’t miss the sequels: Gravity Drive 2 - Jason’s Ark, and of course the third book, which is why they call these trilogies: Gravity Drive 3 - The Scattering. Thank you.