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By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:18:13 +0000

Good idea!

By: steve

steve — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:41:15 +0000

I was woundering if you could put a posting up regarding “owner’s share”?
Oh, does Ishmale ever get to see his friends again?
thanks you
Sgt. Steve Coutee USMC

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:59:50 +0000

Okay ive listen to all of “share” twice totally hooked going back for 3 times round, thanks its a great listen and look forward to owners share. I can see why you so high in Podiobooks they have all been great THANKS

By: Roger

Roger — Fri, 28 May 2010 05:52:06 +0000

Hey Nate whatever happened to Cape Grace? Love your work. Love the Irish music too.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:16:57 +0000

Oh, Owner’s Share is on the way.

The series wouldn’t be complete without it.

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:39:19 +0000

Thanks for the great books and for taking our imaginations to a better place. My wife and I have listened to them all 3 times and shared them with others who also found them equally entertaining. It seems like you’ve wrapped up the saga of Ishmael nicely with Captains Share, but one day when you’re ready to go back there, please write one more in this series, Owner’s Share. You eluded to it from the very beginning, and I think we all want to know Ishmael when he is in that Golden age of his life too. Thanks again for the wonderful journey. Your style and grace for words inspire me to write some of my ideas into books one day also.
Thanks!

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:42:58 +0000

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles ejected from the upper atmosphere of the sun. It mostly consists of electrons and protons with energies usually between 10 and 100 eV, there for you would properly wouldn’t have to tack:-) you would go slower if you didn’t have a star directly behind you but since there are millions of stars there is alot of this solar wind:-) and you can pretty much get a lift from anywheres:-)

the solar sails aren’t collecting wind as such, as there is no wind in space, but infact getting hit by thousads upon millions of small electrons:-) so as long as the ship is being hit by electrons and protons from a direction is would be ok:-)

Infact in practical day to day use this technology is already used on a small scale:-) in a larger scale and to ge a decent speed these sales would be huge:-) maybe the size of 4 foot ball pitches would do.

these days the sales are made from gold, this is because you can get gold to become very thin, by this i mean only 3 atoms thick…

the use of an electrically generated sail is ingenius:-) and is currently actually being worked on:-) as is theoretically could be used just like the gold sails, as the electrons would hit it and give it all its energy.

thanks for your time:-)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:02:45 +0000

I have enjoyed listening to all the books, but as I was listening to Captain’s Share (again), something struck me; if the clippers are “sailing” on the solar “winds”, shouldn’t they be tacking after the jump and heading inwards? Oceangoing clippers could sail pretty close to the wind, but not directly into it! . . . Ah, but the planet/orbital would not be directly between the ship and the star, so the ships *would* be sailing close to the solar wind, but not necessarily into it. Gee, Nate, you think of *everything*!

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:37:24 +0000

Why, yes. Yes, I have, as a matter of fact.

By: Olan

Olan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:16:21 +0000

have you ever thought of writing a book about a colonist on a newly settled plaint? you told about the ships that jump to nowhere and search for new systems, so it would be logical to extend that a bit by a story of the first people to arrive. your story telling powers should make it a great story.