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Valkyrie's
Flight
M.M. Francis
What do a just-fired
physics professor, a woman who may or may not have jumped
to her death from the Golden Gate Bridge, an anti-technology movement,
and the strangest time machine you'll ever see have in common?
They're all major
players in Valkyrie's Flight, a hard sci-fi novel that takes a
decidedly different look at time-travel.
Professor Sam Collier
loses his job and his life's work in one morning. His breakthroughs in
the field he created, Temporal Dynamics, were noticed all right -- by
all the wrong people. It's 2029, and recent technology related
disasters have spawned the NoTechs, a rabidly anti-science political party
infesting governments and universities across the nation.
When a group of pro-science
students contacts Sam and offers to help him fight the NoTechs, he figures
he has nothing to lose. His lovely new lady friend seems interested enough
in him, but there's something unsettling about her -- could she be a NoTech
spy?
Without his university
lab, Sam can't pursue his time research until a scruffy hobbyist describes
a strange new phenomenon he's created with almost-deadly results. Sam
realizes the "thing in Keith's workshop" could be the key to
viable time travel, but how to achieve the crazy initial conditions for
a formal experiment? Can Sam and his group complete and test his time
machine before the NoTech goon squad closes in? Whose side is Katherine
really on?
If you like good,
hard science with a bit of a new twist on tripping through time, check
out Valkyrie's Flight.
Read an Excerpt
Here
Reviews:
Valkyrie’s Flight
is a thought-provoking read about the future, and the choices we
have. You don’t have to be physics major to enjoy this book,
but it does give some glimpses into the world of chaos science and
possible ways to time –travel. Full of engaging characters
and with an absorbing premise, Valkyrie’s Flight will enthrall
science fiction and time-travel fans alike.
Jennifer Macaire, eBook
Reviews Weekly
About the Author:
Growing
up in the mid-60s midwest was easy for me -- I just ignored all the baloney
going on, and did my own thing. Cold winters inside messing with electronics;
endless summers outside racing go-karts and mowing lawns to support my
hobbies.
Oh yeah, and reading.
Reading all the time. I always used to say if someone took away my gadgets
I'd get mad, but if someone took my books, I'd get even. It still holds
true.
After somehow wangling
a Computer Science degree out of Northwestern in 1976 I started out at
Digital Equipment Corporation. I was one of the poor souls who went on
cold calls with hungry salesmen and booted 'em in the shins under the
table whenever they promised the customer a bare-bones PDP-11 could handle
fast-fourier transforms at some ludicrous sampling rate. Since then I've
helped design spacecraft at JPL and, at Rockwell, written part of the
flight software for the MX missile, our latest generation ICBM (which
the Soviets were never able to match). Most recently, I've done testing
on critical defense software.
Among many other things,
I like to work with go-karts and electronics and hold radio amateur callsign
KI0PF. (You can see my comm setup at http://www.tactical-link.com/ki0pf.htm.
By now you've probably guessed, and rightly, that I'm an unrepentant gearhead.
If it blinks, buzzes, produces RF, or goes preposterously fast, I like
it. This probably also explains why I like to read (and write) science
fiction. That is, fiction with SCIENCE in it. No spells, elves, magic
swords, or suspension of the laws of physics.
My goal is to come
up with an entertaining yarn based on solid science that's also populated
with likeable (and detestable) characters. Only you can say if I've succeeded.
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