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A Space Opera series on SolarSail Cargo ships.

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The H2LiftShip series explores the premise of an outer space-faring society without rockets. There are no fantasy FTL drives, relying on Solar Sail powered cargo ships to traverse the Heliosphere.

Ships launch from Earth using Hydrogen balloons and boosts from solid-state and hydrogen rockets.

Once free of the confines of gravity, they turn to solar sails. Nuclear engines power the laser boost cannons and coal is used in the smelters, harvesting asteroid metal.

From launch from Earth to both ends of the Heliosphere, our crew travel, trade and party throughout the void.

H2LiftShips - Beyond Luna (Volume 1 in the Series)

"A Tech Manual for a Future"

Imagine a world exactly like ours, but different

A series taking you on the ride of your life: part road trip, part solar sailing.

H2LiftShips - A Back Story (Volume 2 in the Series)

The back story for the crew starts at the Luna Academy, then Earth and outer space. Deal with pirates, bioGel mutiny, divorce asteroids, casinos, and always food.

H2LiftShips - BosonsWave (Volume 3 in the Series)

It was a nice, friendly Space Opera.
With passive-aggressive families, gambling, and double-dealing, but nice. Still, watch your back.
Now HiveMother at the Heliopause and the HiveSisters in the Heliotail are fighting.
Captain Graciela, her crew, and the Heliospheric Navy have a battle on their hands
as they confront the agal rockets controlled by rogue bioGel computer tablets.

H2LiftShips - BosonsWave^2 (Volume 4 in the series)
The 4th volume in the H2LiftShip Series pits symbotic semi-sentient AI tablets and their algal rocket ships against the Heliospheric Navy.
An assortment of pirates, gamblers, merchants, and workologists fight infected bioGel tablets as the economy returns to barter, beads, and IOUs.
On her repaired and renamed BosonsWave^2, Captain Graciela Lucerne joins forces with Commodore Herb Grauer on his Gorilla Class Fast Cruiser to bring the HiveWar they may have accidentally started to an equitable finish.