Time Wars: Complete Discount

 

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Time Wars: Complete will be marked down from $3.99 to $1.99 between 3/31/25 to 4/21/25 in association with a Kobo promotion for the weekend of 4/29-4/20.

This is my collection of three novels based on the speculation; what if time were caused by a quantum field? If so, then it would have a particle of time associated with it called the chron. In fact, I ended up with three particles, in addition to the chron. I called them the chron+ and the chron-.

The chron+, if dominant, can speed up time, the chron- can slow time down. A table of a speculatively modified Standard Model of Particle Physics is included.

The first novel, Time Wars, speculates what may happen if the military gains control. As the blurb says:

L4 Station Release and Other News

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First item:

Sometime March 20, midnight Amazon time, my latest novel L4 Station will be released.

While an adventure story (with a young protagonist) it is also a near future, hard science fiction novel. It is in my Remembered Earth universe and builds on the Lunar Series of short stories and novellas (though it is completely standalone).

As I say in the blurb:

The first crew replacement ship to the L4 point of the Earth-Moon system carried the new personnel needed to continue mining the asteroids found there.

It also carried thirteen-year-old Raymond Jones and his younger brother Roger, along with others their age.

Raymond is a bookworm and also from the Moon which makes him a two-time loser to some of the other kids.

But he is determined to not let the bullies, the dangers of space, or his lowly status defeat him.

And others are starting to notice his determination, especially Cindy.

Rocket Season - Chapter 5

 

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Second Printing – February 2025

Future Chron Publishing

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Previously published as:

Rocket Summer

Rocket Fall

Rocket Winter

Rocket Spring

Contains additional material.

No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission, except in the case of brief quotations for the purpose of review. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are products of the author's imagination and should not be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events and people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Hard Science Fiction – Old School

Human Generated Content

CHAPTER 5

Georgia Polytechnic University

Atlanta, Georgia

USA

Jack was busy trying to pull his experiment together. He had let the material he needed get away from him by not moving quick enough. Now, he was scrambling to find a new source, a problem becoming more urgent in a world with collapsing supply chains and regional aggressions.

At three inches under six feet, with hair that always needed cutting, he was the perfect image of a physics student. His glasses also contributed, but he was just as skilled in other areas of his studies as the sciences.

As a graduate student, his project was highly constrained by the general funds budget of the department. That's why he had waited to order the materials he needed. He thought they would become cheaper as production ramped back up after the war but then, as he waited, the war had started again. Luckily, he was safe in the United States, but New India was skirmishing again with Southern China over territory, the exact territory where the element Jack needed was being mined. There were other mining areas, but their output was almost all taken, the result was that the price of rhenium had tripled.

Jack had come up with the idea of adding the heavy metal atom to the PZT matrix (which would then become RPZT) because he was hoping that it would increase the internal energy capacity of the stack, which was important to the Mach thruster's efficiency. The idea came from his early days as an engineering student when he was studying rocketry, where rhenium was used in rocket engine metallurgy because of its high melting point.

After some discussion with a chemist friend, he had decided that rhenium could do the job. He found a company that was willing to modify its PZT stack for Jack in return for the results of his research. He was all set, until he got the latest news.