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Hyperspeed offers a glimpse into the world as it might exist in the year 2076. It is futuristic, but not science fiction. The scenarios are plausible based on a logical extension of modern technological developments, where intercontinental travel is carried out in evacuated tunnels, called portals, that permit supersonic global travel, such as Paris to Shanghai in just three and a half hours. The story is about a recently retired corporate executive, named Christophe Connally, who oversaw the production of a submarine portal connecting the east coast of Canada to the west coast of Ireland for a company called, Ashliegh Industries. Christop inadvertently stumbles into a conspiracy to counterfeit and smuggle gold bullion by a sinister group called the Syndicate, intent on commandeering the global economy and seeking to fill the power vacuum left behind when central governments became irrelevant in the post-modern age. The story describes extremely complex construction projects; physicists, scientists, and engineers; farmers and vintners; diabolical international agents; pets and other friendly creatures. Both highly personal, with Christophe's longing for closure to painful chapters of his life, and his engagement with a pair of turtledoves and a few domesticated animals, interspersed with impersonal multinational corporations constructing nearly unimaginable public transport systems spanning the globe that double as gold smuggling vessels. This story is engaging on many levels.

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Hyperspeed (Revised Ed.) is the first novel of the William Grovère pentalogy, followed by The Timecharger, Cédric, Sea Change, and La Charlière, . The author is a retired scientist and inventor residing in Colorado. After a corporate career working in research and development for a major American company, Grovère now applies lessons learned from his scientific endeavors and ideas contemplated throughout his life to the realm of fiction. He writes in a style called ""science future"", after the model of Jules Verne, where details of how things might work sixty years in the future are described-exploring technology innovation in ways it might impact his grandchildren when they reach his age. As a serious scientist having authored many scientific publications and holding several patents, he weaves plausible science into various adventures involving fictitious characters caught up in the unexpected consequences of technology that advances more rapidly than people are able to assimilate it. William Grovère est un scientifique et inventeur à la retraite de soixante-dix ans résidant à Villefranche-sur-Mer, en France. Après une carrière en entreprise en recherche et développement pour une grande entreprise américaine, Grovère applique désormais les leçons tirées de ses efforts scientifiques et des idées envisagées tout au long de sa vie au domaine de la fiction. Il écrit dans un style appelé science future, d'après le modèle de Jules Verne, où sont décrits des détails sur la façon dont les choses pourraient fonctionner soixante ans dans le futur - explorant l'innovation technologique de manière à ce qu'elle puisse avoir un impact sur ses petits-enfants lorsqu'ils atteindront son âge. En tant que scientifique sérieux, auteur de nombreuses publications scientifiques et détenteur de plusieurs brevets, il tisse une science plausible dans diverses aventures impliquant des personnages fictifs pris dans les conséquences inattendues d'une technologie qui progresse plus rapidement que les gens ne peuvent l'assimiler.

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