Length: 4000 kilometers
Orbital Period: 2 hours
Ownership: United States, Eurasian Coalition
Purpose: Accelerate transfer of industry into space
“This is Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling. David Williams has hacked into the future.”
—Stephen Baxter, winner of the Philip K. Dick award
“Explodes out of the gate like a sonic boom and never stops. Adrenaline bleeds from Williams' fingers with every word he hammers into the keyboard.”
—Peter Watts, author of Hugo finalist Blindsight
And suddenly, UAVs are everywhere. Let’s start with about ten blocks from where I’m writing this, over at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, where an exhibit has opened “celebrating unmanned flight technology.” The exhibit features UAVs from all four U.S. service branches—as well as sponsorship courtesy of General Atomics, proud parent of the Predator, the most famous of the UAVs out there (at least among the ones we know about). And indeed, the original Predator is on display: though you won’t see any of its Reaper successors, given that they’re running sorties over Baghdad, where they’ve got better things to do than impressing tourists and Appropriations Committee congressmen.
Yet what runs the risk of being overshadowed ... [READ MORE]
Posted by DAVE WILLIAMS Wednesday April 30 2008 6:28 PM
About this website
Welcome to the year 2110. Within these pages you'll find background material on the novel The Mirrored Heavens
(Bantam Spectra, May 2008), as well as more detail on the largest space-based terrorist attack in history.
The search for Autumn Rain is underway across the Earth-Moon system. They could be anybody. They could be anywhere.
They will strike again.
Count on it.