The Fornax Drive - Softcover

Burgauer, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595514677 ISBN 13: 9780595514670

Publisher: iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

Meet the inventor of light-speed travel, Fornax Nehrengel. Smart, brave, a reluctant hero. Caught up in an intense, light-speed adventure that zooms from the moon to Mars and back again. With him is an undercover Secret Service agent, a crusty old economics professor, a nefarious brother and a hot-blooded young woman. And chasing them? A power-hungry elite intent on stealing from him what could be mankind's most important invention since the internal combustion engine.======================================================================The year 2425: His boots heavy with mud, Fornax Nehrengel marched zombie-like through the bleak and raw dawn. He wore the face of exhaustion, wincing as each step brought forth a fresh dose of pain from the untreated blister oozing puss from between his toes. His dark skin and hair were grimy; his legs and arms sore. From deep within his belly an unheated breakfast of gruel protested its confinement. Indifference deadened his spirit and his eyelids drooped with fatigue. The black scowl etched on his face said it all. Fear. Exhaustion. Pain. Through chapped and broken lips Fornax Nehrengel silently cursed his plight. He was not a brave man. Indeed, he found it curiously ironic that he should be fighting to defend a flag he paid scant allegiance to or risking his life to support cherished ideals he barely endorsed. Fornax resented being here and desertion was on his mind! ======================================================================And so it began. Humanity's first push into space has been a disaster, this despite some noteworthy successes at the outset. Indeed, mankind's initial attempt at colonization has been a total bust, accomplishing nothing more than making the moon a convenient dumping ground for our nuclear wastes. Offering promise for the future course of space-travel, however, Fornax Nehrengel has identified a means for harnessing this otherwise useless radioactive sludge in a battery, a battery so a

About this title

About the Author:

Avid hiker, Eagle Scout, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, and retired stockbroker, Steven Burgauer lives in Illinois with his wife, always making time for his children. He writes science fiction, as well as items of interest in the field of investments and economics.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0595514677
• ISBN 13: 9780595514670
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 376