Black Hole Drive

About the Book

Captain Hardesty and Commander Bowman must shelve their romance long enough to rescue a mining colony and their sentient spaceship, known as Candide, from the threats of a corrupt policeman and a few opportunistic thieves. Bowman shines as she deduces the fate of Candide and all inside of him pivot on a sixty year old fulcrum that calls out to a rebels rebel, a player left offstage for six decades. Bowman has the choice of survival and success or the end of her command. She chooses survival. All the while opening a new tomorrow to the newest addition to her manifest, the miner girl Piglet whose youth and vigor threaten Candide with happiness and new adventures.

Black Hole Drive is a tome on hope and spins a tale of true satisfaction for those in its world. Piglet is thus launched into intrigues and art with few to guide her but the crew she has just met and the mining colony that has been her home for nearly two decades.

About the Author

William Strawn Douglas is me, or I am him, or whatever way you want to say it, I am an expert on being Strawn as it is easy to talk about yourself.

I am 49 and was born on the 23rd of October in 1961 so I come to you as either a Libra or Scorpio, depending on what zodiac you use.

I have been a student, a cook, a marine, an oilfield worker and an avid bicyclist in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota.

Mom was a nurse and nursing instructor while my father was a doctor at the Mayo Clinic. I grew up in the Mayo shadow in Rochester Minnesota.

I live near Mankato Minnesota in the south central great plains of our prairie state.

Presently I am living on a veterans pension and am trying to learn how to write books.

I started out as a graphic artist and now hope to branch out to other mediums.

Soon I will return to Minneapolis and I hope to go to school there again as I did so from 1984 till 1989.