The Whale: a tale of Galactic travel and love (Dislocation)

By Richard A. Smith

Nine months into live testing of warp theory, the Whale, a unique planetary exploration vessel, unexpectedly vanishes. The Whale's crew of eleven finds itself in unknown space with insufficient understanding to return to the Sol system. They are Homo Caleum, born in space and uneasy on both the Earth and the colonies of the Sol system. They quickly discover they have little interest in returning. A Truther, a professional mediator of truth, also travels with the Whale, embedded for unknown reasons and, unlike the others, suffers the loss of his home on Earth. Four Artificial Intelligences complete the Whale's crew and share their unpredictable independent nature. While the financial consortiums of the Sol system search for the Whale and plan to force its return, a first encounter with alien life does not go well. And what follows will change human and alien history in more than one universe.Morgan research vessels are large integrated ecosystems designed by the Heroes to nurture their children for years in the uncertain environments of interstellar space. And the Whale is unique, not only for its embedded crystalline matrix, or the laminar flow at the center of its immense torus, but also because of it's crew: a botanist who cooks, a blind navigator, a spurned captain, a Choate environmental engineer, Lucy and Ethel, designers of the torus, and a theoretical physicist who distrusts his math - among others. There is no certainty once you leave home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197683578X
• ISBN13: 9781976835780
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"