Race Through Space: Race Through Space, #1

By David Hawk

Neil Webb and his best friend Marie are enjoying their first day of summer vacation when Neil receives a mysterious message from his father. In the message Neil finds out his father Stephen has been using wormholes to visit alien planets. Stephen was on his way to visit a hyper-intelligent species named the Teva when he and his best friend, world-famous scientist Dr. William Lowell, were caught in an alien war and stranded on an uncharted planet, triggering an emergency message to his son. Neil and Marie must travel across the universe to either find his father and Dr. Lowell or finish his father's mission. A mission that will change the course of human civilization.

Race Through Space is an adventure story that pays homage to the adventure movies from the 1980's and the real-life scientists that have shaped our understanding of the universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books To Go Now
• Release date: Dec 11, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386318507

Book preview

Dedication

For Dante, my brilliant son, this story is for you.

Excerpt from Race Through Space – Book 1

Marie nodded. Neil pressed Direct Wormhole and five pictures came up on the screen. The first picture was a green world with the word Simia underneath. The next picture was a blue world with silver rings, named Amphibios. The third planet was a brown world with a giant red slash stretching from its north pole to its south pole. It was Cylosis. Next was an icy planet, scored with mountains and canyons named Glacies. The last planet, Varillam, was the one that most resembled Earth. The planet had wispy white clouds with vast continents surrounded by azure oceans. Half of the planet was lit by a white sun and the other half was shrouded in darkness. Within the darkness, billions of city lights covered the surface.

Neil selected the photo of Simia and tapped the word Initiate. When he did, a blue laser shot from the device. The word stabilize pulsed. Neil tapped the screen and a timer started counting down from thirty seconds. Neil grabbed Marie’s hand. They investigated the glowing oblong singularity and saw a world covered in rainforest. In unison, they stepped through the singularity and in one step they left Earth and arrived on the jungle world. Neil stared back to where they came from. In the midst of the jungle, was his garage floating inside the singularity. He took a deep breath and watched the wormhole collapse.

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Race Through Space – Book 1

Copyright © 2018 David Hawk

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Chapter 1

S he blinded me with science. Science! shouted Thomas Dolby in his classic song She Blinded me with Science.

The song blared out of Neil’s smart phone on the table next to his bed. He poked his hand out from underneath his rocket ship patterned comforter and turned off the alarm. Then he slowly sat up straight. He threw back the covers, jumped out of bed and changed from his NASA pajamas to his black Space-X T-shirt and a pair of jorts.

After several minutes, Neil bounded down the stairs and turned toward the kitchen. He rounded the staircase and saw his mother cooking eggs. She wore a grey sweatshirt that read High Plains Storm Chasers. She turned toward him. Good morning. You’re up early, she said, with a spatula in her hand.

Yeah, I’m really excited about today. I need to pick up Marie before we go to the museum, Neil said.

Are you all packed up for tonight? his mother asked.

Yep, I can’t wait, Neil replied.

The first day of summer vacation was always a treasured one for him. That’s when he and his father, took their annual camping trip. The two of them would go to a quiet lake near their home in the heart of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. He loved to camp and fish, but the highlight of the trip was when his father brought out his hi-tech telescope. The two of them would spend hours at night looking at the stars, planets and galaxies that populated the night sky.

Anyway, love, I have some errands to run in Denver today, his mom said. I may not see you before you guys leave. Have so much fun and stay near your dad. There are a lot of hungry bears out there.

Neil left the house and biked through town on the way to meet his best friend, Marie, who lived with her mother on the opposite side of town in their tidy double-wide trailer.

When he got there, Marie was standing impatiently next to her bike, wearing a green hoodie that read Mysteries of the Universe, written across the chest. Her long black, curly hair was braided into pigtails. Neil noticed that she was wearing a new pair of glasses. They were black and round. Neil thought they looked kind of looked like Harry Potter glasses. The two of them have been best friends since the first day of school and he secretly wished he was as smart as she was.

Chapter 2

Neil and Marie had set their sights on this day months ago—the day that their hero, Dr. William Lowell, would premiere his new planetarium show at the Mountain View Earth and Space Museum. Neil loved him because he loved learning about space. Marie adored him because he was an African-American and a nerd, just like she was. Dr. Lowell was the most famous scientist on Earth. His show, Mysteries of the Universe, was a smash hit and his books were top sellers. He was also an old friend and classmate of Neil’s father, who ran the museum. If it wasn’t for his dad’s words of encouragement, Dr. Lowell would be making lattes at a Starbucks somewhere. Years later, when Neil’s dad reached out for help, Dr. Lowell gave him a helping hand.

Several years ago, Neil’s dad had self-published a book where he claimed that he not only proved the existence of wormholes, (bridges that connect the vast distances in space), but he stabilized them and used them to visit alien worlds across the universe. The most fantastic claim was that he lived with and studied several different alien civilizations. He claimed to have spent most of those years living amongst the population of an