Skyhook

About the Book

Everyone dreams they are able to fly.  Few consider the ramification of everyone sharing the ability.  When an exploited engineer invents the machine that makes the dream a reality, few are ready for the world that results.  Social structures cease to function.  Industries find their products and services unnecessary.  Governments defined by borders and boundaries cease to exist.  Skyhook tells the story of the inventor, his friends, and his enemies as he builds an industry calculated to exact vengeance from the corporations, governments, and people he despises.

The major events in Skyhook occur randomly in our world.  When they occur together, as statistics say they must, only the actual invention of the skyhook will be necessary to fuse the events into a social catastrophe.  Skyhook prototypes already exist.  An inventor will eventually succeed.  The world will change.

About the Author

Larry Secrest has been an engineer, physicist, Quality Manager, Corporate Reliability Manager, Internal Business Consultant, devoted husband (thirty-two years), father, grandfather, and Yellowstone National Park backpacker. After receiving a Master’s Degree in Nuclear Physics from Utah State University in 1975, he languished twenty-five years in corporate dungeons before writing Skyhook. Skyhook is an ironic result of that corporate employment. In 1994 he filed a patent application for a real skyhook. Larry is fifty-three years old and resides in Troy, Michigan.