Chronosphere: A science fiction novel

A Science Fiction NovelIn a remote colony on Mars, physicists have used a particle accelerator to artificially create miniature black holes. By accident, two black holes orbiting each other with relativistic spins have opened up a portal to another universe. Engineers Masamune Hughes and Tom Hildebrandt build bigger and better machines to enable them to peek inside, and even cross the threshold themselves. What they find defies all description.Meanwhile, a mysterious x-ray storm is slowly creeping across the planet destroying everything in its path. Scientists are mystified because the x-rays barely amount to what one might expect to find in a dentist’s office.When whole communities turn up deserted and scientists are found murdered, Tom and Masamune realize there is something deeper going on than anyone realized. It becomes a race with time to solve the mystery and figure out how to use the portal technology to save the planet from a worldwide catastrophe.

A. Scott Howe is a licensed architect and robotics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He earned PhDs in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering from Hong Kong University and in architecture from University of Michigan. Dr. Howe spent 13 years of practice in Tokyo, Japan, and taught for 6 years at Hong Kong University. He specializes in robotic construction and currently is on the NASA development team building long-duration human habitats for deep space and permanent outposts for the moon and Mars. Dr. Howe is also a member of the JPL All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer (ATHLETE) robotic mobility system development team and Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) capture mechanism team.