Clarence Hallett is a wannabe space engineer with an overactive imagination and who cut his teeth on books by Isaacs Asimov and Ben Bova. He is co-owner of a patent for a forestry delimbing machine...view moreClarence Hallett is a wannabe space engineer with an overactive imagination and who cut his teeth on books by Isaacs Asimov and Ben Bova. He is co-owner of a patent for a forestry delimbing machine and the owner of a patent for a reaction containment drive unit. He has designed several other devices that may have been patentable as well. When he is faced with a challenge that seems impossible on the surface, he has learned to think outside of the box because experience has taught him that most of the things we think of as impossible are only impossible because we don’t know how to do them yet.
He has spent most of his working life repairing and designing machine systems that more often than not involved working in very challenging conditions in isolated locations. Because of that, he understands the dangers involved with working in unhospitable environments and away from any immediate help where one mistake could very well result in his death.
This is his first attempt at writing, and he has been able to incorporate some very interesting ideas into this story. It is his sincere wish that one of the ideas verbalized in this story will spawn an innovation that proves to be beneficial to us on our journey into the future.view less