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THE IRIS
Gravity, Space, and Time: Book 1
Written by Patkós Csaba
Note from the Author
A couple or so years before starting to write this book I had an idea about a story. With time the story in my head got bigger and longer every day. Eventually I realized it won’t fit all in my brain, so I decided to put it on paper … or computer to be more precise.
As you probably guessed by my name, I am not a native English speaker. Heck, I am not a writer either. I am a software developer and I did write a lot of technical documentations, tutorials, and courses, but I never wrote fiction of any kind.
I believe I must specify that I used Gemini by Google (formerly known as Bard) to be my editor and co-writer. Everything in this book is written by me, a real human being, but refined and improved by Gemini. I used it to help me express myself in a more artistic way, to help me be consistent with the style, tone of voice, and the personality of the characters.
This book is free and will remain free forever. I, the author, Patkós Csaba, forbid anyone to benefit financially by redistributing this content in any way or form, partially or entirely.
You are allowed and encouraged to share this book with anyone by any means for free and as long as you don’t gain financial benefits from doing so.
Enjoy.
© Copyright 2024 Patkós Csaba
If you like this book, you can buy me a coffee and help me stay awake at night while writing the second book in the series.
Thank you.
Donation link: https://ko-fi.com/patkoscsaba
The 22nd century dawned bright, humanity swaggering like a child with a new toy. Quantum computers hummed, weaving possibilities, their intricate circuits birthing wonders. Fusion power crackled, miniature suns powering cities, vehicles, the very breath of civilization. We built sky-towers scraping the clouds, carved canals through asteroids, danced around Mars and even visited Saturn's rings in ships as sleek as silverfish. Drunk on the heady wine of technology, we dreamt of distant suns, whispered hopes of alien civilizations, but remained tethered to our fiery cradle.
The 23rd century arrived, not with a bang, but a sobering realization. Fusion, our sun in a box, proved fickle. It sputtered, belched radiation, refusing to scale up, forever limiting us to our local star. Even our quantum wizards, for all their brilliance, couldn't crack the interstellar travel code. We yearned for distant shores, but remained chained to the few planets closest to Earth.
Frustration birthed innovation. Not from dazzling physics labs, but from the workshops of engineers wrestling with gravity, that invisible puppeteer, the bane of every aspiring astronaut. "Don't fight it," they whispered, "dance with it."
Thus arose the gravity capacitor, a hulking behemoth capturing raw gravity, storing its power like celestial batteries. The key? Channeling, controlling its release – a tango with the universe's fabric. It wasn't graceful, not yet, but it worked. Machines hummed with immense power of captured gravity, engines spat gravity, propelling ships at speeds that made fusion engines whimper in envy. Computers, thinking in ripples of spacetime, surpassed quantum predecessors a millionfold. Even electricity yielded, replaced by the silent hum of gravity-powered lights and machines.
The true dawn of humankind, whispered in gravity's embrace, began 700 years ago. Not fueled by fire or circuits, but by the very fabric of existence. We were toddlers learning to walk, but walk we did, not just through our solar system, but
towards the unknown, powered by the whispers of a revolution born from the dance with gravity.
This is the story of those steps, of the first tentative strides into the cosmic ocean after conquering our own solar system. This is the story of the Iris, a testament to our newfound understanding, a ship woven from hope and desperation. And this is your invitation, dear reader, to join us on that dance, to feel the universe's tremors, and to witness the birth of a new era, where humanity, guided by the invisible hand of gravity, finally takes flight.