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A Tower in Space-Time (The Stasis Stories #5) by [Laurence Dahners]

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Book 5 of 7: The Stasis Stories

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This hard Sci-Fi novel is the fifth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s developing a device that allows time to be stopped within limited volumes of space-time.
In this 5th story, Kaem’s newfound physical fitness is letting him perform at an astonishing level in physical endeavors such as soccer, and martial arts.
The company he, Arya Vaii, and Gunnar Schmidt founded to commercially develop his time-stopping discovery is making money hand over fist. Currently, their profits come from their use of the phenomenal physical properties of a time-stopped segment of space-time to build rockets.
But now they’re building their space tower. Taking off at a thirty-degree angle from eastern Virginia, it’s 200 kilometers long and a hundred kilometers high. By placing the interior of their spacecraft—and its passengers—in stasis they can accelerate launches at fifteen gravities, reaching orbital speeds before the craft leaves the rail. This lets them put payloads in orbit for a thousand times lower cost than a rocket!
The world, and some unscrupulous people, are turning to Kaem and his company to further our exploitation of orbital space…

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January 6, 2021
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08PTPBBMW
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 6, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3519 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #119,124 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #616 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #862 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)
- #2,513 in Science Fiction Adventure

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Laury Dahners lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and enjoys composing and recording music as well as painting. Recently he's become interested in writing novels. For a day job he worked (retired now) as an orthopedic surgeon and taught at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Department of Orthopaedics.

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http://laury.dahners.com/Stories.html

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Yay...but

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2021

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I’m always happy to see more from Mr Dahners. And this is another tasty sample of possibilities. What *could* science achieve with only a small innovation?

BUT

The plot was so full of holes it was basically fantasy. Absurd hand wavium levels of dysfunction.

The governmental/legal portion was so clunky it felt like the wheels were square.

Once a bill has been passed and signed by the president IT BECOMES A LAW. It stops being referred to as a ‘bill’. This a vital distinction since actions taken in regards to a ‘bill’ are *not* legal while actions taken in regards to a ‘law’ are presumptively legal.

Additionally, a multi million dollar company’s legal team would at least be monitoring the congressional register in case *bills* being voted on could impact the company. Since the company would actually be NAMED in a bill seizing said company... it doesn’t need mentioning that the space launch companies doing business with Staze would *also* be monitoring congress. And the delegation members from Virginia would take strong notice.

See, the problem it that this requires blind, stupid ignorance on the part of a massive number of people. And I just couldn’t buy that level of incompetence. At the very least, the party in opposition should have been raising enough hell to alert Staze to the bill. Before it got signed into law.

The plot also required the DoD to be willfully ignorant of new technology...being used in space launches...and talked about in the news for months...

I will continue to purchase this author’s books. This is SCIENCE fiction, and is worth the time *and* money. But I had to call out the poorly conceived sub-plot.

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4 If I Do That 'Only Thing' I Be Rich Man Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2022

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A Tower in Space-Time is the fifth book in The Stasis Stories series by Laurence Dahners.

Okay, I suppose I can forgive Ayra the majority if her carelessly rude behavior to the man she supposedly always loved... But I hold the right change that designation back if, and when, she ever reverts to her usual ornery self. I only do this because Kaem is a little cinnamon roll, and she is only forgiven as long as she makes him happy.

Finally! It has been long awaited for Staze to branch out into other countries for the betterment of the entire world. All of the political drama that came to a head in these pages was entirely expected. I was merely wondering how Staze, and more directly Kaem, would meet these roadblocks and overcome them. Which he managed to achieve expertly and with much pizzazz.

I'm honestly entirely excited for the possibility of space stations in this book. It's been entirely Earth-bound up to this point that reaching into outer space with more permanence (like much of the sci-fi genre) will really broaden this series.

The way in which the POV bothered me in the previous book, is still minutely present in this iteration. Except this complication in my enjoyment for Dahners work is less present. I suppose I adjusted to the differences in story structure, and my only real issue was with compartmentalizing the stories pacing to my satisfaction.

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Joseph Szutarski

The story gets more engrossing as it unfolds

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021

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The proliferation of self authoring has caused a massive amount of authors to create a tremendous surge of books of all genres.
This is not all bad. In many instances it is liberating in that it has allowed otherwise reluctant authors a chance to create in the face of an otherwise daunting and needlessly complicated book authoring industry.
Unfortunately many book concepts which should support no more than three or four books tend to be dragged out to many volumes trapping the reader into multiple purchases for a perhaps less than satisfying story progression.
THIS is NOT one of those "traps".
Mr. Dahners story progressions are very satisfying.
Good characters you can warm up to. Interesting premises that stimulate the imagination and mix just enough plausible with speculation to make for good reads that do go for several volumes but that you eagerly continue on with.
So if you'll excuse me I'm going to order the next book in THIS series and see what happens next.....

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Nathan Miller

Exactly what you would expect of Laurence Dahners

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2021

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I have found myself somewhat torn about Laurence Dahners writing lately. I absolutely loved reading the Ell Donsai, Proton Field, and Vaz series he wrote, and re-read all of them at least once. However, after reading so many of his stories, the repetition of plot devices he used have begun to wear on me. There are only so many times I can stand to read about the government obstructing new technology, the main character being kidnapped by someone after new technology, or people repeatedly trying to steal said new technology, sometimes several times in one story.
And really, there are only so many different ways Laurence Dahners can write these situations.

I absolutely love all of Laurence Dahners books, and if you are reading a review for book five in one of his series you probably do too, so read this book and continue to expect new and interesting technologies and applications of new technology. But don't expect new and improved writing or plot devices.

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Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2021

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A short but interesting novel, makes me realize how poorly written and researched most novels here on kindle are however you must have read the previous novels to keep up with the characters in this book. Few technical incosistencys 880 mw is ok but you need some big power initiatialy to power up the flywheel plus 20,000 rpm is bit high, not for the staze flywheel but for the driving element, could be done but not in the timeframe given, talking as an engineer here.
Worth reading as long as you can ignore your technical knowledge slightly. Maybe combine 2 books to make a proper full length novel.

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MR A MACLAINE

Really enjoyable!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2022

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The what if science from this author is great (as always).
He does love his technological utopia.
ALL the bugs and glitches in computer technology must have been fixed in the near future timelines!
All I can is lucky them that live there. I wish the biggest computer problem I ever had was it ran SLOW!
A good read. I will continue to read the books from this author.

Philip0815

Space-Time, an original conceptualisation?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2021

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I love the concept of this Author's series. Like with Ell Donsaii, one unique character supports the first posit, supported by other interesting characters. The kind of easy/hard sci-fi read i like best.

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What? Why? Still love it though!

Reviewed in Canada on June 2, 2021

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I will still give 5 stars even if I don't like the ending! Spoilers again. I admire being fair bit after being bullied I think that their should be a price that the bullies of the world should pay. Should have more che ching in arya's computer courtesy of the benevolent government of the United States! Recompense I mean! Keep up the great work! Thank you for the book! I am buying the next one!

Steve

A good read

Reviewed in Australia on January 6, 2021

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Firstly, go back and read the first book in the series. This book was delivered to my kindle in the early hours of this morning and I have finished it and am writing a review at 2:30 in the afternoon. That is how much I liked it

Dave Nicholson

An excellent continuation

Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2021

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This entire series has been a fun read, and this one is no exception. Seriously looking forward to more going forward.

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