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Rockets Versus Gravity

Richard Scarsbrook
Barcode 9781459733862
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Release Date: 01/12/2016

Genre: Fiction
Sub-Genre: Science Nature & Math
Label: Dundurn Group Ltd
Language: English
Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd

The flutter of a butterfly?s wing. The typhoon halfway around the world. Events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Rockets Versus Gravity explores the forces that change our courses and our lives, as well as the connections between us that we don?t always see.
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A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences.


Trajectory. Declination. Impact. Escape Velocity. These are rocketry terms that could also describe aspects of the human experience.

A lumberjack obsessed with space travel loses four different wedding rings, and each of the lost rings symbolizes something different to the person who finds it.

There are the members of a rich family whose dramas overlap with those of the homeless people living right next door, under the bridges of the Rosedale Ravine. The wheelchair-bound teen who declares war on a man parking his luxury car in the handicapped parking spot. The would-be rock star selling insurance, whose terminal diagnosis sets his life on a new and dizzying path.

And many others. Every person is connected to every other — genetically, coincidentally, necessarily, or randomly. Every action has a consequence, seen or unseen, from the sublime to the catastrophic.