Meet the inventor of light-speed travel, Fornax Nehrengel. Smart, brave, a reluctant hero. Caught up in an intense, light-speed adventure that zooms from the moon to Mars and back again. With him is an undercover Secret Service agent, a crusty old economics professor, a nefarious brother and a hot-blooded young woman. And chasing them? A power-hungry elite intent on stealing from him what could be mankind's most important invention since the internal combustion engine.======================================================================The year 2425: His boots heavy with mud, Fornax Nehrengel marched zombie-like through the bleak and raw dawn. He wore the face of exhaustion, wincing as each step brought forth a fresh dose of pain from the untreated blister oozing puss from between his toes. His dark skin and hair were grimy; his legs and arms sore. From deep within his belly an unheated breakfast of gruel protested its confinement. Indifference deadened his spirit and his eyelids drooped with fatigue. The black scowl etched on his face said it all. Fear. Exhaustion. Pain. Through chapped and broken lips Fornax Nehrengel silently cursed his plight. He was not a brave man. Indeed, he found it curiously ironic that he should be fighting to defend a flag he paid scant allegiance to or risking his life to support cherished ideals he barely endorsed. Fornax resented being here and desertion was on his mind! ======================================================================And so it began. Humanity's first push into space has been a disaster, this despite some noteworthy successes at the outset. Indeed, mankind's initial attempt at colonization has been a total bust, accomplishing nothing more than making the moon a convenient dumping ground for our nuclear wastes. Offering promise for the future course of space-travel, however, Fornax Nehrengel has identified a means for harnessing this otherwise useless radioactive sludge in a battery, a battery so a
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Avid hiker, Eagle Scout, Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, and retired stockbroker, Steven Burgauer lives in Illinois with his wife, always making time for his children. He writes science fiction, as well as items of interest in the field of investments and economics.
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The first page surprised me by how good it was. Could this book actually have been written by someone who had taken the time to learn what good writing is before they published? Could this author have bothered to take the time and make the effort to hone their craft? I turned the page and found that he had not.
The writing soon became just what one would expect of a beginning writer, that is to say redundant, overwritten and purple. Everything is explained tediously, allowing the reader none of the joy that comes from discovering facts as he reads. The dialog is written not as men speak, but as only fictional characters do. The author one can sense always there behind the characters, pulling their strings, filling their mouths with words they would never say. Care for Examples? "Oh, yes sir...perfectly," Fornax parroted, suppressing an irreverent snicker. Like an unlanced boil, the terrain was swollen with one butte after another. A moment later, he had his answer. It stared them in the face when they crested the next rise. "Oh, my Lord!" Pasha groaned, his panic-stricken voice serving to fucus their attention on the open expanse before them. Even as he spoke, Nehrengal's sinewy arms tightened with rage. The bloody fool had led their small company into harm's way; unintentionally perhaps, but into harm's way just the same. There you have it, prose swollen and purple and in need of slashing. (If you see nothing wrong here, by the way, you'll enjoy the book.) Does this mean this writer will never write well? Not at all. It means merely he has yet to learn to do so. Will most young readers enjoy this novel? Certainly. Until you learn to discriminate between good and lesser writing, this novel will read quite as well as most. In fact, it is written as well as most novels published. I am only sorry I could not enjoy it. I was rather curious where he was going.
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I finished reading your book "The Fornax Drive" just before all the holiday hubbub and didn't get around to saying how much I enjoyed it.
So, let me remedy that now: I loved it! The whole premise was so enjoyable, and I found myself really identifying with one of the main characters. I REALLY want to join the newhumans in their new colony. Thanks for writing, and keep it up! Kent McManigal
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