Rocket Spring: Rocket Series, #4

By D.W. Patterson

Rocket Spring: A Short Novel

 

Jack's invention of the Mach thruster would change the world.

 

Meeting Janie had changed his.

 

But the world had other plans for Jack's invention and for Jack.

 

Rocket Spring is the fourth story, a short novel, in the author's Manifold Earth Universe: Rocket Series. Beginning in the near future and extending into the far future, the Manifold Earth Universe extrapolates future humanity's struggles, failures, and successes in moving out into the vast cosmos.

 

Rocket Series suggested reading order:

 

Rocket Summer: A Short Story

Rocket Fall: A Short Story

Rocket Winter: A Novella

Rocket Spring: A Short Novel

 

Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

Human-Generated-Content.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D.W. Patterson
• Release date: Apr 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224946143

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