Worldship Praxis

By JD Lovil

The Great World Ship Praxis slips through the darkness between the stars, carrying its cargo of humans and Earth life forms on its multi-century journey in a great circuit of the neighboring stars.
Most of the people aboard spend the bulk of the journey sleeping in hibernation pods, trusting the Alpha Crew led by the near immortal Tech Director Jack Sadow to keep them safe from relativistic space rocks, alien life forms, and the million and one other dangers in the great darkness.
For one hundred sixty four years, the 800 mile long by 100 mile wide World Ship has been traveling, visiting first Epsilon Eridani, then Tau Ceti, travelling at slightly more than one tenth the speed of light. For about 110 years of the voyage, Jack has been awake and on guard against any danger to the ship and crew.
The ship carries a fleet of defensive and colony ships, and is heralded by nanotech assemblers, sent ahead to begin construction of colonies at each suitable candidate planet encountered. The great ship itself maintains constant velocity throughout its voyage, launching colony Arc ships and high speed defensive Torch-Ships along its course as needed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JD Lovil
• Release date: Dec 12, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301729944

JD Lovil

JD Lovil was born in the small Town (population 795) of Lockesburg in the southwestern Arkansas, in the year of 1957. That was the year of the first canine cosmonaut. Enjoying early life as Farm Hand, Assistant or Slave, he learned just enough about hand labor, mechanics, metalwork, plumbing and electrical work to be dangerous, and far more than he ever wanted to know about many other unpleasant tasks. Enduring the slings and arrows that is childhood, he eventually entered into University life, where he dabbled in biology, Physics and Computer Science before settling on a major in Chemistry. Surviving many fine adventures over the years, and after having been rumored to be an agent for the Arcturian anti-movement movement, the Author has settled into the Phoenix Metro Area in Arizona, where he hopes to avoid life's complications.