Charles McCarry tells the future once again
The best kinds of writers see the world and imagine how it'll be in the future. Former spy Charles McCarry has a habit of telling the future in his fiction—and the latest example of that involves robotic bees.
Researchers at Harvard University are developing a RoboBee, a tiny robot capable of tethered flight. Which sounds pretty similiar to the robotic hornets in McCarry's novel, Ark...
Learn more about RoboBees here.
And get your copy of Ark here!
Earth’s wealthiest man attempts to save humanity from a coming apocalypse
The planet’s first and only trillionaire, Henry Peel, did not make his fortune by being a fool. A gifted inventor and scientist, he possesses an imagination on the scale of history’s greatest thinkers, and he has turned it to the problem of Earth’s core. Two decades ago, scientists learned that the core spins faster than the rest of the planet, storing up a cache of energy that, if released, could cause an earthquake that would obliterate human life. To begin mankind anew, Henry Peel is going to lead us to the stars.
He gathers the world’s leading physicists and engineers and asks them to design a spaceship large enough to safeguard a sample of humanity and durable enough to survive a thousand-year voyage. Money is no object, but time is short. The apocalypse is on its way.
