Slingshot: Building the Largest Machine in Human History (The Starchild Saga Book 1)
Release Date: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Published by: Starman Press; 5th edition
Pages: 443 pages
In 'Slingshot: Building the Largest Machine in Human History', Robert G. Williscroft crafts a tale of love, mystery, and adventure, exploring humanity's quest to open space to everyone through the innovative launch loop spanning 2,600 km.
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Travel to space for the price of a train ticket—to the Moon for a little bit more.
"Slingshot does for the launch loop what Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise or Sheffield's Web Between the Worlds did for the space elevator."
—Alastair Mayer Author of the T-Space Series
Now in a new full-color edition!
Slingshot is a love story—about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender bending...and a machine, the largest ever built. Slingshot is a mystery—about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, a true-believer.
Slingshot is an adventure—about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch-loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It's about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal...and about opening space to the common person.
The setting is the day-after-tomorrow. Technology has advanced, the web is more pervasive than ever, but human ambition and greed remain unchanged. In
"Slingshot does for the launch loop what Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise or Sheffield's Web Between the Worlds did for the space elevator."
—Alastair Mayer Author of the T-Space Series
Now in a new full-color edition!
Slingshot is a love story—about a man, a woman, another man, another woman, some gender bending...and a machine, the largest ever built. Slingshot is a mystery—about a missing aviatrix, a conspiracy, a true-believer.
Slingshot is an adventure—about following a dream, the ocean-deep, outer space. Slingshot is about constructing the first space launch-loop stretching 2,600 km between Baker and Jarvis Islands in the Equatorial Pacific. It's about high finance, intrigue, unlimited ambition, heroism, fanaticism, betrayal...and about opening space to the common person.
The setting is the day-after-tomorrow. Technology has advanced, the web is more pervasive than ever, but human ambition and greed remain unchanged. In