On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

On 6/7/2016 6:55 AM, Richard Aiken wrote:

I recently picked up an SF novel that uses something called "gravity slips" to travel FTL. These are explained in the first chapter using the following technobabble:

What is the book and author?

"Slave Trade," by Susan Wright. It's the first volume in a trilogy and this initial volume is available free online.

Note of caution: I bought the book without a dust jacket. The dust jacket pic and blurps I subsequently found online promote the series fairly unabashedly as SF porn. But I'm about two-thirds of the way through the first volume and so far it's no more pornographic than some of Heinlein's work. Methinks Ms. Wright's publisher is aiming at the millennial "bodice ripper" market.

Richard Aiken

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