Mark Noble Space Adventures Series by Tony Harmsworth
Mark Noble Space Adventures #3
Trappist-1
Tony Harmsworth
TRAPPIST-1 – THE SEQUEL TO MOONSCAPE AND MOONSTRUCKTrappist-1 is Mark Noble Space Adventure 3. [It is suggested, but not essential, that you read Moonscape and Moonstruck first.] Following the 2030 discovery of quantum spolding (space folding), interstellar exploration becomes a possibility. NASA, together with private space exploration companies, begin work on the complex physics, technology, and hardware to turn it into reality. After a test flight to Mars, more hazardous than anyone anticipated, the starship Spirit and its two Rimor shuttles set off for the dwarf red star, Trappist-1, almost forty light years from the solar system. Haven, the fifth Trappist planet, has continents and seas, icecaps, glaciers and mountains, but the ubiquitous plant life they find is, at first, dull and uninteresting. However, it doesn't take long for them to discover that Haven isn't a place on which to find shelter. It does, in fact,...
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Mark Noble Space Adventures #4
The Spolding Conundrum
Tony Harmsworth
THE SPOLDING CONUNDRUM is book four in the exciting Mark Noble space adventures series. Following Moonscape and Moonstruck, Mark's team of entity-enhanced humans set off to Trappist-1 in the search for an Earth-like planet. The newly discovered spolding drive, which exploits the difference between normal space and the dark universe, cuts travel time to fractions of what might otherwise be needed.At the end of Trappist-1, book 3, the depleted crew make the horrific discovery that something has gone terribly wrong. The world is different, satellites have vanished, the space station has gone, and only astrophysicist Mary has the slightest idea why. After the shocking revelation that the problem was caused by the spolding drive, the crew try to analyse what happened and how they might return to their own Earth. Is backtracking the answer? They decide that they have no alternative other than to try. If it didn't work, they could wander, lost,...
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