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LUX-1: Hypersonic

LUX and the New TECH, Book 1

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LUX-1: Hypersonic

By: Ken Pence
Narrated by: Brian Holden
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Lux Blakely, the preteen son of a NASA scientist working on top-secret government projects, is not shackled by accepted scientific theory and dogma.

His experiments in gravimetric research and the expanding capability of a nascent AI cause Lux to be closely observed by several government agencies. He discovers a way to use magnetic fields for propulsion, but he needs money. Lux and his friend, Prissy, come up with a way to use his father's developing AI to raise money through social media. Lux is trying to get out of high school and into college at age nine. Lux and Prissy take deepfake videos to a whole new level and make a lot of money doing it. The US military and intelligence community is not amused.

©2022 Ken R Pence (P)2023 Podium Audio Adventure Hard Science Fiction

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Great plot... robotic writing

So this story and the broader series reminds me of all that was great about The Martian, or Exo by Steven Gould.
But with none of the beauty, or even natural cadence of.... Y'know... Normal human speech... found in the prose of either example.
I genuinely do love the story itself, and Holden is no slouch as he tries to inject some life into the text.
But Holy Gods of Scifi Technobabble... Please save me from the 'Lux went to the workbench before Lux turned on the device that Lux had designed in Lux's second year of preschool, which Lux had attended when he was still in the womb' of it all.
Being Australian, I mightn't have the greatest grasp on the norms in the southern US... However, I am rather sure they're more fond of contractions than the author is here.
"You all"? Really?

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