Rocket Winter — D.W. Patterson

Rocket Winter: A NovellaJack's idea would truly change the world. But creating a new kind of rocket engine had its costs.Jack had failed once and almost died.Now he had failed a second time and it looked like it would be the last. Unless he found support.Then he found out through his mom that his dad, though long dead, had left the financial support he needed. And his mom, of course, was his number one supporter. And then there was Janie ...Rocket Winter is the third story, a novella, 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.Though part of a series Rocket Winter can be read as a standalone novella.