Venture - Softcover

Rauner, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500308005 ISBN 13: 9781500308001

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

A young man journeys across the solar system to escape his lonely life. But spaceflight becomes a deadly challenge.

Harry Gordon joins an international crew ferrying their commercial space station to a weird anomaly in Mars' orbit. Onboard, relationships grow like his crops - not always as expected – and threaten their mission. Can a gardener unravel the reality behind a portal to the stars in time to save his crew?

Kate Rauner's story combines adventure with life on a near-future space station. Click now and join the journey.

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About this title

About the Author

I'm a retired Cold War Warrior. I worked for over twenty years at the Rocky Flats Plant, which was part of the nation's nuclear weapons complex. During the Cold War, I was a Chemical Engineer in a plutonium recycling and purification facility, where I helped troubleshoot and improve the processes and did some research and development work as well. After the Cold War fizzled out , I switched to environmental engineering and project planning. I've held plutonium in my hands. Not many people can say that.
When the lengthy decommissioning of Rocky Flats was nearly complete, I moved to work at the copper mines around Silver City, New Mexico, where Native Americans collected copper long before the Spaniards entered Mexico.Today I live in southwest New Mexico, at the edge of the Gila National Forest, which includes the world's first wilderness area, with my husband, dog, three cats, and four llamas.
I enjoy hiking and bird-watching, and, as a volunteer firefighter, have fought wildland and home fires. Now that I've adding writing science fiction and poetry, I think I'm well on my way to achieving my life goal: to become an eccentric old woman.

From the Back Cover

Board a commercial space station and ferry it to anenigmatic anomalywhere our solar system touches the Helios star system, aportal that wasdiscovered decades ago and may be lost.
Along the way mine a cometand visit the colony on Mars. Butdisaster follows and the crew fights to save their mission and their lives.
Kate Rauner, Hanover NMAuthor, poet, firefighter, retired Cold War warrior
katerauner.wordpress.com

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1500308005
• ISBN 13: 9781500308001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 337