The Elenauts - Paperback

by Tarek Masud (Author)

The world has entered an age of robots and humanoids. The tech giant Space Race has erected a structure, eighty miles tall, to lift the elenauts (Elevated Astronauts) to the lower orbit, instead of using the conventional launch vehicles. This is about changing the rules of the game to travel beyond the solar system. The goal is to build a platform in space which could be used to build the kind of space vehicles needed to travel to the nearest constellation. Hence, Space Race has assembled and trained a dedicated team. The team consists of humans and android robots. The field is ready for inter-stellar journeys, but Cindy and Trevor are not sure where the journey will take them. Cindy and her team find themselves under the crosshair of a deadly plot to eliminate them (pitch). Sabotage arouses suspicion about the integrity of the robots. What has been designed to protect turns into a menace, jeopardizing the entire project. Hence, Michael and his company become the targets of those who are about to lose the race because of the successful execution of the Project Elenaut. In the end, Cindy and her team realize Michael's dream. They survive not only natural calamity, but also man-made hurdles like subversion and outright military assault.