Rocket Summer: A Short Story

Rocket Summer: A Short Story

Summertime is a special time for young boys.

Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space.

Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded. Next, another disappointment, the bottle rocket Jack was testing exploded and he was grounded.

Would he miss the upcoming bottle rocket challenge? Was this the end of his summer?

Rocket Summer is the first short story 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 into the vast cosmos.

Rocket Series suggested reading order:

Rocket Summer: A Short Story

Rocket Fall: A Short Story

Rocket Winter: A Novella

Rocket Spring: A Short Novel

See the author's website dwpatterson.com for more.

Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

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