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What if heaven exists at the speed of light –
but the only astronaut to experience it remembers nothing?
Less than twenty years in the future,
the world faces fuel shortages, Arab-American tensions, and
new technology we don’t fully understand.
Ray is the
first astronaut to travel at the speed of light. A determined
atheist, his worst fear is that his atoms will explode, leaving
his baby sister alone in the world. Marianne, a famous spiritualist
writer, has her own theories about what will happen to him
– theories which turn his love to contempt. Dawn, a
sharp-witted politics student, can read the danger signs of
a world she desperately wants to change, but who will listen?
As the political heat rises and the war drums beat,
what lies at the speed of light could change their lives –
or destroy them.
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“You did it!” In the background,
he heard whoops and cheers.
“Did what?” Ray glanced around: nothing had changed.
“You just traveled at the speed of light! We can do
it – we did it – you did it!”
“We haven’t done anything,” insisted Ray,
bemused. “I’ve just pressed the button, nothing’s
happened.”
“You pressed that button two minutes and twenty-two
seconds ago.”
Ray checked his panel. The seconds were counting upwards from
blast-off time: eleven, twelve…
“My equipment says different. There’s a fault
with the ship – the flight hasn’t worked. I haven’t
moved.”
In the base, the ground crew stared at each other and back
at the screen. Less than half a minute ago, the ship had blinked
back into existence.
“Ray, your ship vanished for two minutes and ten seconds.
We need to check your clock, but the mission was successful.
You went, man, and you came back.”
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