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November 2023
On Sale: October 24, 2023
Featuring: Ethan Schmidt-Li; Endeley Adamou; Pascaline and Maurie
448 pages
ISBN: 1982193042
EAN: 9781982193041
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A RACE IN AFRICA TO BUILD THE FIRST SPACE ELEVATOR
New money, old tribes, and international megacorps
race to build the first space elevator. With a little Dabare
magic, it just might work!
The Sadous, an oil-
rich West African family, are handed a plum contract as
repayment for a decades-old favor that could tie them into
an industry of the future—if the family doesn’t
tear itself apart first.
Two engineer daughters
of the Sadou family, Pascaline and Maurie, upon whom the
burden of success rests, have troubles of their own. One
wants nothing more than to leave and make her own name as an
engineering prodigy, while the other is troubled by fever
dreams and snakes.
Ethan Schmidt-Li is an
ambitious megacorp executive with eyes on a big
promotion—only to get more than he bargained for when
put in charge of the company’s make-or-break project.
Endeley Adamou is the powerful nephew of a
Bakweri chieftain walking the fine line between
modernization and tribal tradition.
These are
some of the people that Tchami “Chummy” Fabrice
has brought together to an ambitious end: constructing in
Africa the world’s first space elevator and ensuring
the space industry that it catapults will enrich the
continent and all involved. They have the carbon nanofiber,
prime land around Kilimanjaro, and a captured rock in orbit
for the tether.
The hard part will be getting all
these different people working together long enough to see
it built.
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