Glitch

by Kate Rauner

Rob Shay makes an incredible discovery: a glitch in space that opens an impossible path to a star and its planets. All Rob wants to do is be part of exploring the Helios system, but unexpected problems keep getting in his way. Rob struggles to stay with his mission in a world he can't control. Rooted in today's technologies, set in a futurist world.

285 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2014

About the author

Kate Rauner is a retired Cold War Warrior. She worked for over twenty years at the Rocky Flats Plant, once part of the nation's nuclear weapons complex. She helped decommission the site, which is now a National Wildlife Refuge.

Kate moved to southwest New Mexico and worked at the copper mines around Silver City, including the historic Santa Rita mine. Santa Rita has been mined since Native Americans collected copper there before the Spaniards entered Mexico.

Today she lives outside Silver City on the edge of the Gila National Forest with her husband and cat. She enjoys hiking and bird-watching, and, as a volunteer firefighter, has fought wildland and home fires. "I'm well on my way to my life's goal," Kate says. "To become an eccentric old woman."

Reviews

[Sudharsan srinivasan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Firstly sorry for reading it very late after promising to do so(I can sense that author's feel).Secondly,kudos for the author who choosed an tougher dimension/sub-genre under sci-fi genre,which many author dare not to touch.The plot of the story is nicely carried out throughout the book. The Story kick off slowly with formal introduction about the protagonist and his environment. I deeply envy the house of rob shay,I would never leave that house if I had one. Once rob's team found a strange thing in space called Glitch in space, book tempts to turn pages.Then at one stage I thought there would be some ugly aliens who gonna be part of this book and even I thought this story is heading like commercial alien type sci-fi movie. Thanks to author,she proved me wrong. The story turns to be harsh undeniable reality.The author holds the grip of readers by not making readers to easily predict the end. Coming to characterisation,starting from rob to yuan's cat author has done a good job. Every character has been justified.I thought What significance would rachel have, which was answered in the end. The author's anger for avoidance of rural development was ousted via senator cox. Thanks to author,who gave greater significance for Indian space scientists.On lighter note punarnava moorthy sounds more masculine name than feminine. Scientific explanation could have been with some metaphor,because of this reason the author has tagged GLITCH as hard sci-fi I think.
So 'GLITCH'- A different dimension/sub-genre in sci-fi.