These novels are for Young People of all ages.

 

Welcome to Vesta, a hard and soft science fiction story.  A fun read. An engaging tale set during mankind's colonization of the solar system, sprinkled with nuggets of life’s experience.  None of the ideas are impossible, but many are new.  It is written with a certain pragmatic optimism that only surviving the future can bring.  If you want to berate civilization’s hard climb and imperfections, focus on depressing news, or blow up the world, there are plenty of those kinds of stories.  Vesta is about standing upon the foundations set in the past, the struggle to survive today, and the quest to grow into the future.

 

Within the narrative you can mine for gems.  It introduces leading edge technology and projections of today's science, as well as possible explanations of dark matter.  It proposes the root causes of human behaviors based upon humanity's past survival.  It recounts the experience of living within a submarine and inside the space shuttle to reconstruct the issues which would confront the space cultures of the future.  Survivors laugh at death, and the book contains humor throughout.

 

Finally, and most importantly, Vesta contains a message:  Given guidance, opportunity and responsibility, people thirteen years old can successfully become adults. Many of the ancient culture allowed this, and today’s society is doing our youth a disservice by not allowing competent individuals becoming adults with full rights at that age.

 

In addition, a road map as it were, is included, suggesting a path that today's people could take to strengthen mankind's chance of survival. By colonizing the solar system, humanity and life itself is given additional assurance of not only survivability, but for the opportunity to achieve our potential. 

 

Evidence indicates that despite all the terrible problems of the world, we are not necessarily doomed.  Additionally, despite the incredible growth and achievements from our small beginnings, we are not assured a future. This can be summarized as follows: