On 1/15/2015 8:37 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:

> There was a relatively recent series of novels which featured a mad
> scientist inventing an (essentially magical) force field generator which
> could be made to function as a extremely-high-thrust drive. I thought
> the books made for fairly decent reading, so long as you could swallow
> that initial whopper of a premise.
>
> But I can't for the life of me remember the author or any of the actual
> titles.

Would that happen to be "The Expanse" series?  Leviathan Wakes, et al?
It's recently been picked up for a TV show, so I've been reading a bit
about it.

"Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped
it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good
scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of
the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest
funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he'd left the plans on
his home computer."

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