Sea Change - Grovère, William
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In the past, technology advances have led to major changes in ship propulsion and deployment. In the 19th century, sail gave way to steam engines. In the 20th century steam gave way to diesel engines, and in the 21st century diesel gave way to microfusion reactors. Nowhere is the introduction of new technologies more pronounced than in naval combatants. The cover painting depicts the first French battleship, the Napoleon, in 1850 to employ steam engines. Naval battles have been won or lost based on the judicious deployment of new technology. The story of Sea Change takes place in the future…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In the past, technology advances have led to major changes in ship propulsion and deployment. In the 19th century, sail gave way to steam engines. In the 20th century steam gave way to diesel engines, and in the 21st century diesel gave way to microfusion reactors. Nowhere is the introduction of new technologies more pronounced than in naval combatants. The cover painting depicts the first French battleship, the Napoleon, in 1850 to employ steam engines. Naval battles have been won or lost based on the judicious deployment of new technology. The story of Sea Change takes place in the future around 2080, when microfusion propulsion based on the discovery by the scientist, Cédric J. Rothschild, was beginning to be commercialized. By that time, nuclear ballistic missile submarines had become obsolete as a means of deterrence after the Great War thirty years earlier. Submarines were no longer considered a credible threat--that is, until the Syndicate deployed ballistic missile submarines with microfusion propulsion reactors--not for force projection, but for the purpose of piracy on the high seas and extortion. The reader is invited into a journey of science future involving spies, subterfuge and conspiracies on a global scale as the Syndicate seeks to subvert and conquer the world. Around the same time, another technology, also based on Rothschild's controversial variable light-speed theory was emerging--antigravity. Antigravity would forever transform every mode of transformation. Sea Change is the third novel of the trilogy with The Timecharger and La Charlière in the continuing saga depicting the conflict between good and evil in the battleground of deploying disruptive technologies.
Autorenporträt
Hyperspeed (Revised Ed.) is the first novel of the William Grovère pentalogy, followed by The Timecharger, Cédric, Sea Change, and La Charlière, . The author is a retired scientist and inventor residing in Colorado. After a corporate career working in research and development for a major American company, Grovère now applies lessons learned from his scientific endeavors and ideas contemplated throughout his life to the realm of fiction. He writes in a style called "science future", after the model of Jules Verne, where details of how things might work sixty years in the future are described-exploring technology innovation in ways it might impact his grandchildren when they reach his age. As a serious scientist having authored many scientific publications and holding several patents, he weaves plausible science into various adventures involving fictitious characters caught up in the unexpected consequences of technology that advances more rapidly than people are able to assimilate it. William Grovère est un scientifique et inventeur à la retraite de soixante-dix ans résidant à Villefranche-sur-Mer, en France. Après une carrière en entreprise en recherche et développement pour une grande entreprise américaine, Grovère applique désormais les leçons tirées de ses efforts scientifiques et des idées envisagées tout au long de sa vie au domaine de la fiction. Il écrit dans un style appelé science future, d'après le modèle de Jules Verne, où sont décrits des détails sur la façon dont les choses pourraient fonctionner soixante ans dans le futur - explorant l'innovation technologique de manière à ce qu'elle puisse avoir un impact sur ses petits-enfants lorsqu'ils atteindront son âge. En tant que scientifique sérieux, auteur de nombreuses publications scientifiques et détenteur de plusieurs brevets, il tisse une science plausible dans diverses aventures impliquant des personnages fictifs pris dans les conséquences inattendues d'une technologie qui progresse plus rapidement que les gens ne peuvent l'assimiler.