I’ve been absent from the Digital for the last few weeks ‘big pushing’ towards completion of ‘principle-wording‘ for Book Four – ReImagination.
I’ve finally done it! The draft is done and now with my editor. I am aiming for a summer launch (could be late Summer). There was a lot to tie together, much sweat and some swearing, but the people who have read it so far tell me it works and they like it!
Best yet if you ask me! 😉
Also – new cover artwork on its way!
Article from the 1930s with a concept for a Vacuum Dirigible (Sky Whale).
“LONG before the invention of the Mongolfier fire balloon, and just as soon as it was discovered that air has weight, an ingenious clergyman, the Rev. Francis Lana, S. J., suggested that the buoyancy of a vacuum might be used to make an air-craft rise (as sketched at the right). This was the first real scientific suggestion for a lighter-than-air craft; before his time, people had suggested putting dew in a vessel, because “dew has a natural tendency to rise,” as shown by its evaporation. But, unfortunately, it is hard to make a ball which can resist a pressure of a ton to the square foot without collapsing, and yet be lighter than the air it displaces.”
The Singularity’s Children SkyWhale flexes its hull to ‘swim’ through the air and uses Magneto-Hydrodynamic affecters in its hull-envelope to accelerate plasma across its skin reducing drag and providing thrust.
The SkyWhale vacuum dirigible keeps its envelope open by magnetically containing super-fluid and spinning it through a helical loop up and down its hull. This active dynamic structure employs centripetal forces to keep the envelope open and requires less mass than an equivalent passive rigid structure.
I was talking to a friend recently. He pointed out that people will read my books and find them quite topical, noting perhaps that many of the fictional events and technologies parallel developments in the ‘Real‘… and not checking the dates when I wrote about the topics!!
Here’s one: “Astronauts growing new organs on International Space Station”
“The experiment uses ‘weightlessness as a tool’, according to Cara Thiel, one of the two researchers from the University of Zurich who are conducting the research.”
My next book is going to be written either in the far-future, or distant past! 😉
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