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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "NFI: New Frontiers, Incorporated: The New Frontiers Series, Book 2"
 by Jack L Knapp
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:04:58 -0500
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"NFI: New Frontiers, Incorporated: The New Frontiers Series, Book 2" by 
Jack L Knapp
  
https://www.amazon.com/NFI-New-Frontiers-Incorporated-Book/dp/1720016453/

Book number two of a eight book science fiction space opera series.  I 
reread the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade 
paperback self published by the author in 2018.  I have all eight books 
in the series and am rereading them now with the number seven and eight 
books that I just bought from Big River.

Wow, great story with lots of character development and action.  An 
older engineer buys a bunch of Nikola Tesla's journals in an old chest 
and spots a design for an "electric turbine" that was never built.  He 
builds a working version of the electric impeller (a device that 
converts electricity into motion) after many restarts and has an 
anti-gravity device.  The rest of the story concerns project funding and 
building various containers for the electric impeller and various 
peoples trying to steal the design.

The book starts with NFI has spread itself across Earth into smaller 
countries like Finland and Japan after getting run out of the United 
States.  NFI has totally left the land and sea businesses and is 
strictly focused on the space business.  They have built several space 
ships now and are moving to a bigger class of space ships capable of 
carrying a multiple ton cargo plus a larger crew.  Travel back and forth 
to the Moon is common now for NFI space ships but very people on Earth 
really understand this.

The writing of the story is a little bit rough, a little more editing 
would have been good.  But for me, the story is always the most 
important thing.  This is my second read so that makes it a five star 
book for me.

BTW, this is not the first time that a story has been written similar to 
this.  Several stories have "magical" engines for space drives.  A very 
similar book is John Varley's most excellent "Red Thunder" which uses 
the squeezer drive.
     https://www.amazon.com/Red-Thunder-Lightning-Novel/dp/0441011624/

The reason why I like these stories so much is that it is not just the 
new drive device, it is also the design and work to build the container 
around the new device.

My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (375 reviews)

Lynn