Hyperspeed - Grovère, William

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Résumé :
Hyperspeed offers a glimpse into the world as it might exist in the year 2076. It is futuristic, but it is not science fiction. The scenarios are plausible based on a logical extension of modern technological developments, where intercontinental travel is carried out in evacuated tunnels, called portals, that permit supersonic global travel, such as Paris to Shanghai, in just three-and-a-half hours. The story is about a recently retired corporate executive named Christophe Conally who inadvertently stumbles into a conspiracy to counterfeit and smuggle gold bullion by a sinister group called The Syndicate, who are intent on commandeering the global economy and seeking to fill the power vacuum left behind when central governments became irrelevant in the post-modern age. The story describes extremely complex construction projects; physicists, scientists, and engineers; farmers and vintners; diabolical international agents; pets and other friendly creatures. Both highly personal, with Christophe's longing for closure to painful chapters of his life and his engagement with a pair of turtledoves and a few domesticated animals, interspersed with impersonal multinational corporations constructing nearly unimaginable public transport systems spanning the globe that double as gold-smuggling vessels. This story is engaging on many levels.

Biographie:
William Grov?re is a 74 year-old retired scientist and inventor residing in Golden, Colorado. After a corporate career working in research and development for a major American company, Grov?re 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 fifty years in the future are described-exploring technology innovation in detail as 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....

Sommaire:
Hyperspeed (Revised Ed.) is the first novel of the William Grov?re pentalogy, followed by The Timecharger, C?dric, Sea Change, and La Charli?re, . 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, Grov?re 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 Grov?re est un scientifique et inventeur ? la retraite de soixante-dix ans r?sidant ? Villefranche-sur-Mer, en France. Apr?s une carri?re en entreprise en recherche et d?veloppement pour une grande entreprise am?ricaine, Grov?re applique d?sormais les le?ons tir?es de ses efforts scientifiques et des id?es envisag?es tout au long de sa vie au domaine de la fiction. Il ?crit dans un style appel? science future, d'apr?s le mod?le de Jules Verne, o? sont d?crits des d?tails sur la fa?on dont les choses pourraient fonctionner soixante ans dans le futur - explorant l'innovation technologique de mani?re ? ce qu'elle puisse avoir un impact sur ses petits-enfants lorsqu'ils atteindront son ?ge. En tant que scientifique s?rieux, auteur de nombreuses publications scientifiques et d?tenteur de plusieurs brevets, il tisse une science plausible dans diverses aventures impliquant des personnages fictifs pris dans les cons?quences inattendues d'une technologie qui progresse plus rapidement que les gens ne peuvent l'assimiler....