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Cargando... A Pause in Space-Time (A Stasis Story #1) (The Stasis Stories)por Laurence Dahners
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Tom-e | Jun 8, 2021 |   I liked it. I read everything Mr Dahners writes because he invents clever little things that impact the world in a big way, yet he still puts characters into the story. The editing issue: several times a character (1) made a comment the seemed to be a response to another character(2), but wasn’t. (2) hadn’t actually said what was ‘repeated’. My issue is that it happened more than once and it was always a rewording of the underlying concept. Here is an example: (2) “We could use it to play a sport like baseball.” (1). “Football?!?” All that being said, I still liked the story and look forward to more. (  ) wildwily | May 28, 2020 | I liked it. I read everything Mr Dahners writes because he invents clever little things that impact the world in a big way, yet he still puts characters into the story. The editing issue: several times a character (1) made a comment the seemed to be a response to another character(2), but wasn’t. (2) hadn’t actually said what was ‘repeated’. My issue is that it happened more than once and it was always a rewording of the underlying concept. Here is an example: (2) “We could use it to play a sport like baseball.” (1). “Football?!?” All that being said, I still liked the story and look forward to more. ( ) wildwily | May 28, 2020 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesStasis Stories (01)
This novella length hard Sci-Fi book begins the "Stasis Stories," a series of tales from the near future. They tell us about Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man who uses his extraordinary math talents to work out a way to stop time within limited volumes of space-time. He and Arya Vaii, a business student, set out to develop the phenomenon.It quickly becomes obvious that, beyond the fact that time stops inside the stasis field, the volume of space-time in stasis might be useful for some of its other phenomenal properties. Since it essentially can't be altered (time's stopped inside) it's stronger than any known substance and, unlike matter, does not melt. This makes it the perfect material for building rocket engines. They set out to sell such engines in order to provide their budding business enough profit to let them develop other useful products.Unfortunately, the owner of the lab that tested the properties of their samples also recognizes their potential. His desire to share in their profits unhinges his shaky grasp on reality. When he can't talk them into letting him join their enterprise, he demands a share at gunpoint. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A Pause in Space-Time begins a series of novellas with a lot of promise. It develops a straightforward hard science fiction premise: A college science student creates a circuit that can send an object unchanged into the future. No return trip is possible, but it creates a stasis field with unusual properties as it travels forward. It was fun to think along with our hero as he tries to design experiments to discover what those properties are, I was pleased that the story avoids some obvious tropes. For instance, there are no years-long trips into the future as in Heinlein’s Door into Summer. Our protagonist is an impoverished student who needs to raise money to treat two different kinds of inherited anemia, including sickle cell. He hopes to market the stasis field to someone with the resources to scale it up. But it turns out to be hard to find an honest buyer. The novella already has six sequels, and I am curious to see where Dahners goes with the story. Four stars. (