Deep Light

Dennis Martineau

Description

A fast-paced thriller where from the start evil continues to grow until the reader is brought to the brink of Hell.
For the past fifteen years, Commander Ian Philips with the help of thousands of others; choosing the best in each field designed and built Parallax, an enormous Space Station and the Deep Light device. The Parallax space station is located in the void between Ganymede and Callisto, two of Jupiter’s moons and orbits the colossal planet every fifteen days. From the top or bottom view, the Parallax space station, resembles a pair of eyeglasses with Deep Light star shaped object directly in the middle. Parallax and Deep Light were developed and designed to generate and contain a small controllable black hole to study and maybe for the first time shine a Deep Light into the void. However, things go array from the start and what they may have done is opened an unimaginable nightmare to Hell.

Sujets

• Thrillers
• White hole
• Science fiction
• Black hole
• Hell
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 12 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663248152
• Langue: English

Extrait

DEEP LIGHT
 
 
 
DENNIS MARTINEAU
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
DEEP LIGHT
 
 
Copyright © 2023 Dennis Martineau.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
 
 
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Scripture quotations marked RSV are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.
 
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4814-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4818-3 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-4815-2 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022921834
 
 
iUniverse rev. date: 12/08/2022
CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
 
 
 
 
 
 
This book is dedicated to my mom and dad (I love and miss you both very much); my darling wife, ILYTTSBO; SunShine my daughter, (One heck of a shot); and to all my family and friends, each of you encouraged me on this long journey. Finally I wish to give thanks to our Lord for without Jesus’ help I would have never been able to write this novel.
And God said, “Let there be light.”
And there was light.
And God saw the light was good.
And God divided the light from the darkness.
—Genesis 1:3–4
The sky is filled with good and bad that mortals never know.
Oh, well, the night is long, the beads of time pass slow.
Tired eyes on the sunrise, waiting for the eastern glow.
—Led Zeppelin, “Battle of Evermore”
PROLOGUE
Scott Noels was driving one of the electric cars at top speed; he knew how to tweak the engine to get more speed out of it. He was driving at a good clip down main corridor one. He had to catch up to the women before it was too late.
Debra Martin, a mathematician, and Jade Parks, a theoretical physicist designer, had come over to the flight control side of the Parallax space station without permission, and they had taken an electric car, again without permission, and now were driving back over MC1 to the main control side. Ho wever, the Deep Light device was running at full power.
Scott could feel every muscle in his body tensing, as if he were getting ready for a fight. As the hairs on his neck stood up, he heard a little voice inside tell him something was not right.
He thought, Tom Arena sent out the commander’s order. It was an all-hands message, so the women should have received it. Then why the hell are they crossing over MC1, when the commander’s order was clear that no one crosses MC1 or MC8 while Deep Light is at full p ower?
Scott, with a confused look, said to himself aloud, “What in the world am I seeing? It looks like MC1 is warped.”
Although all the main corridors were several miles long, it was a straight shot. Therefore, he could see quite a distance ahead. There were several main corridors, but only two, MC1 and MC8, connected the main control side to the flight control side of the massive space station. The Deep Light device was attached to the middle of both of those main corridors.
As Scott looked farther ahead, he thought he could see MC1 begin to warp and twist. As a structural engineer, he remembered seeing an old film back in college of a badly designed bridge located in Washington state.
As he continued driving, now going a little slower, he reminisced about that bridge.
He should have been paying more attention, for he never saw the large thing that was gaining on him.
Excited, acting as if he’d won a prize, Scott yelled out, “The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, jokingly called Galloping Gertie!”
Now he realized why the commander had given the order not to cross over MC1. It looked like it was twisting and turning up and down and sideways like that bridge in the wind. It looked as if a giant, invisible kid were playing with it.
Scott, playfully looking astonished, said, “Yeah, there’s a large, invisible kid outside the Parallax space station, playing in the void of space. Of course, that makes more sense than what I’m seeing now. I should be able to see their car by now.”
After another minute of driving, Scott finally saw the women’s car. It lay on its side, with both women still strapped inside. As he got closer, he wondered if the twisting and turning of the main corridor had caused them to crash. He was at least glad to see they looked to be all right.
As Scott got even closer, he heard them screaming, but he couldn’t understand why they were screaming.
Then, as he watched, he saw a large, hairy black spider climbing on top of their tipped-over car, trying its best to reach the two women.
Scott pulled out his weapon and, after taking careful aim, shot twice. Then he caught movement out of the corner of his eye: another big black spider was coming up on his right side.
“I knew I should have stayed in bed today,” Scott said.
CHAPTER 1
The Europa shuttle crew and passenger awakened in their stasis chambers from hypersleep, roused by Europa ’s systems. The three men had spent the last four months in cryogenic sleep as they traveled from Earth Station 1 to the Parallax space station. Now they were located more than five hundred million miles from Earth, but they still had more than a hundred thousand miles of travel left to reach the Parallax space station, which was located in the void between two of Jupiter’s biggest moons, Ganymede and Callisto.
The hypersleep chamber was a tubelike chamber in which a person was cryogenically frozen. The process was referred to as hypersleep, cryosleep, or cryo, and it was required for a jump to near light speed. Anyone who wanted to work and travel in space was required to pass a stringent physical and mental examination, including the ability to withstand being in a hypersleep chamber, which was required to survive the long trips in space.
Captain Mark Hall, the shuttle flight officer, and Lieutenant Travis Schultz, his navigator, had been ordered to bring ICEE manager John Roberts to Parallax and wait on station.
ICEE, pronounced “I see,” was the International Conglomerate for Expeditions and Explorations, and they ran the world. ICEE, as the name implied, oversaw everything in the world and space. Any explorations, expeditions, or travel into space could be done only through them. They owned just about everything around the globe, including many people. The people all worked for them in some regard, either as employees or as members of the ICEE organization, which was set up like the military of old, with its different branches. ICEE security was the name for what once had been called the military. Anyone who wished to work for or enlist in the ICEE security had to sign a contract, which typically ran from one to five years, although some were lifers and had been under contract for more than twenty years.
Captain Hall found it unusual that they needed to bring ICEE manager John Roberts out to the Parallax space station, for they’d been taking nonessential personnel off Parallax for quite some time, and now they had been ordered to bring this ICEE manager out to Parallax. The captain knew orders were orders, and although both men deserved rest, they did their job without hesitation. They had been picked because the Hall and Schultz flight team was not only well liked but also one of the best flight teams in space.

John Roberts and his parents lived on Earth Station 1. Both his parents worked doing repairs on the large space station. Roberts’s parents were loving and caring to each other and to Roberts. He enjoyed growing up on such a colossal station, for there was so much to explore. There were many places where one could see the stars outside through the many windows. Occasionally, he wondered what being on Earth felt like. On Earth Station 1, he could go into the zero-g room and float around. In that room, there was no up or down; one could float or spin around. It was great.
Roberts especially enjoyed being around some of the brightest people in the universe. He watched massive sta