Frozen Time — D.W. Patterson

Frozen Time: A Novel Because of the Time Wars fought in the space around Earth the underlying system of local and non-local links that makes up spacetime had been destroyed. It was now impossible to use the spin-two drive to open those links and access orbit and the rest of the Solar System. The rocket ship had returned as the primary way to reach orbit from Earth's surface. Now a strange spaceship had appeared above the spaceports scattered around the world and placed them in a seemingly impenetrable bubble of frozen time. The Earth economy was thrown into turmoil with the loss of space access and a young boy, along with his friends and his amazing AI, were off on an adventure of a lifetime as they and others tried to understand what was happening. Frozen Time is set in the future (2700s) and is the third novel in the Future Chron Universe: Time Series. First published, April 2022. The Future Chron Universe consists of 33 volumes including 9 novels, 1 short novel, 15 novellas and 8 short stories. Hard Science Fiction - Old School. See the writer's website: dwpatterson(dot) com for more information.