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Gravity Wave
Seven large spaceships leave Earth to colonize an uninhabited planet five light years away.
The spaceships are huge monolithic shaped crafts, each with three nuclear engines at its stern. The ships are one kilometer in length. Large enough to carry supplies and equipment to build a colony. Each country on Earth that participated in the colonization effort has its own ship.
The Portuguese spaceship is the only ship to successfully arrive at the desert planet Ruba. What happened to the other ships from the other six countries?
Alexio is the leader of the Portuguese colony on the otherwise uninhabited barren desert planet Ruba.
Alexio is undaunted by the seemingly hopeless situation. The success of establishing a colony is the top priority on his mind. He is not going to fail.
The few hundred Portuguese colonists are supported by several thousand very sophisticated robots.
After discovering evidence of an extinct alien civilization, Alexio and his fellow colonists spend the next two decades trying to find answers about the alien culture and what happened to them. They appear to have met a very violent ending.
However, the colonists do learn about gravity wave technology from the previous inhabitants of planet Ruba. And that changes everything!
Alexio must adapt his plans to assure that the Portuguese colony will survive in this part of the galaxy.
Will they suffer the same awful fate of the previous inhabitants?
Will the Portuguese colony be stable enough to produce the second generation of colonists?
The spaceships are huge monolithic shaped crafts, each with three nuclear engines at its stern. The ships are one kilometer in length. Large enough to carry supplies and equipment to build a colony. Each country on Earth that participated in the colonization effort has its own ship.
The Portuguese spaceship is the only ship to successfully arrive at the desert planet Ruba. What happened to the other ships from the other six countries?
Alexio is the leader of the Portuguese colony on the otherwise uninhabited barren desert planet Ruba.
Alexio is undaunted by the seemingly hopeless situation. The success of establishing a colony is the top priority on his mind. He is not going to fail.
The few hundred Portuguese colonists are supported by several thousand very sophisticated robots.
After discovering evidence of an extinct alien civilization, Alexio and his fellow colonists spend the next two decades trying to find answers about the alien culture and what happened to them. They appear to have met a very violent ending.
However, the colonists do learn about gravity wave technology from the previous inhabitants of planet Ruba. And that changes everything!
Alexio must adapt his plans to assure that the Portuguese colony will survive in this part of the galaxy.
Will they suffer the same awful fate of the previous inhabitants?
Will the Portuguese colony be stable enough to produce the second generation of colonists?
541 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2017
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June 15, 2018
Gravity wave weaves the tale of planet colonization in another galaxy far from Earth. Romance, mystery, history, colonization struggles and triumphs, engaging characters and relationships, family dynamics, strange new aliens, thought-provoking new science and technology are just some of the topics pulling the reader into the novel. Ending twist that leaves the reader begging for a sequel.
August 31, 2017
Just started this book. I used to work with him at a defense contractor. About 40 pages in, and happy so far.
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