Leviathan wakes book5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets. Fortunately, he’d left the plans on his home computer. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. ![]()
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