“The Conceptual Design of a Constellation Class Starship proposes an unconventional theory linking fractal geometry and three-body celestial mechanics as the foundation for practical starship design. The book doubles as a public record of the author’s bitter professional falling-out with the University of Texas, making it as much personal document as scientific argument.”
KEYWORDS: celestial mechanics, relativity, Mars, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas
244 pages 6x9 Trade book Available as a Paperback, PDF book, or ebook Read a 15-page preview at Blurb.com
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Clark’s The Conceptual Design of a Constellation Class Starship is one of the more singular objects in contemporary self-published literature — part aerospace treatise, part legal deposition, part cosmological manifesto. The ambition is genuine: Clark seeks nothing less than a unified fractal theory of celestial mechanics, with interstellar travel as its practical dividend. The engineering passages carry real intellectual voltage. But the text is haunted throughout by the ghost of an academic dispute, and Clark cannot resist prosecuting his case against the University of Texas mid-theorem. The result is brilliant, aggrieved, and utterly impossible to look away from.
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