First Contact (Retread Shop Series Book 1) by King T. Jackson

Author:King, T. Jackson [King, T. Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wilder Publications Inc.
Published: 2015-11-15T18:30:00+00:00

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In an isolated office tower of the Astrophysics Building at Akademgorodok, just south of Novosibirsk in western Siberia, and shortly after 10 p.m., junior Academician Alexei Yevgeny Tikhonov sat watching the Harrigan vid-interview on his Sanyo wrist TV. An Australian colleague interested in low-temperature physics had given it to him a year ago at a scientific conference in Melbourne. The little unit was quite capable of picking up a sufficiently strong comsat signal, and he watched with growing excitement the Russian language subtitles appearing below the two centimeter square screen. At the end of the vidcast, he looked out the triple-paned glass of the window fronting his desk, staring at the twinkling stars of the northern sky, thinking deeply. His research specialty was the reduction of Bremsstrahlung and cyclotron radiation energy losses in deuterium-based fusion reactions in existing Tokamak-type, laser inertial confinement and compact fusion reactors. Now . . . here were aliens who had developed fusion pulse starship engines that made travel to the stars possible. Even more fascinating was the invention of coherent antimatter beams that served as an afterburner for the fusion plasma exhausts. He looked out at the night sky with an intense longing to know all he could about these strange new visitors.

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