Rocket Spring — D.W. Patterson

Rocket Spring: A Short NovelJack's invention of the Mach thruster would change the world.Meeting Janie had changed his.But the world had other plans for Jack's invention and for Jack.Rocket Spring is the fourth story, a short novel, in the author's Manifold Earth Universe: Rocket Series. Beginning in the near future and extending into the far future, the Manifold Earth Universe extrapolates future humanity's struggles, failures, and successes in moving out into the vast cosmos.