Now that the novel is written and I have completed my first-pass edits, I’d like to introduce my newest novel, A Darkling Nine.
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Gaylord Frost is a retired engineer who is restricted to a wheelchair. He perfected vacuum cracking, a technique of harvesting virtual particles as a power source. Kermit Sayman is the CEO of the world’s largest aerospace empire, the company Gaylord once worked for and still owns the vacuum cracking technology. These two men do not like each other.
Kermit has a plan to use vacuum cracking to power a relativistic spacecraft intended propel himself into the future. He seeks a time when medical advances can reverse aging, but he needs help from Gaylord to make the Amber mission happen.
Everything goes according to plan, except for one detail. The cost of vacuum cracking is an increase in entropy, and attaining a velocity near the speed of light requires an enormous amount of energy. Nobody expected stars would be gone from the universe so soon, and the crew of Amber wakes from cryo-sleep into a seemlingly empty universe of total darkness.
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The title, A Darkling Nine, refers to the nine major characters who embark upon the Amber mission. I am currently seeking first readers for this 98,000-word novel.
